‘A Gun As Tall As Me’

In a poignant account, Jo Becker writes in The Asian Wall Street Journal about the plight of the child soldiers of Burma. The report says that Burmese child-soldiers account for approximately one-fourth of the 300,000 children currently believed to be participating in armed conflicts around the globe.

These children, as young as 11 years old, are ‘recruited’ by force, threats and coercion and forced to take up arms and lay down their lives for causes they do not even know about or have heard of…..

Read on for more on this….

There is enough one reads about child labour that is shocking and moving…. but this is entirely something else….

The entire report can be found here.