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US envoy: Children in conflict taught to commit war crimes    2021/06/29 07:59 Syrian youth Sobhi, 15, holds an AK-47 assault rifles as he takes part in a military training at a former school turned into a “military academy” in Tallinn in Aleppo province, Syria, Jan. 23, 2013 (Photo: JM Lopez/AFP) Children caught in conflict are being taught to commit war crimes before they can count, the US ambassador to the United Nations said Monday, pointing to the deadliest attack in Burkina Faso in years, with more than 130 civilians killed by an armed group comprising “mostly 12- to 14-year-olds.” Linda Thomas-Greenfield told the UN Security Council that many of those killed in the attack in early June were children, and the horrifying raid on the village of Solhan in the West African nation s Sahel’s Yagha province saw “children killing children – children killing children.”

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