Dozens of boys abducted from South Sudan displacement camp, UNICEF says

Submitted by ThomasI on Sun, 2015-02-22 15:15

Story here. Just wondering if the White House will create a hashtag as they did for the girls, like #BringBackOurBoys. Excerpt:

'Dozens of South Sudanese boys, some as young as 13, were recently abducted by an armed group in South Sudan as they prepared for school exams, UNICEF reported Saturday..

UNICEF did not say what group had seized the boys from a displacement camp, but the abductions reportedly took place in an area controlled by government forces and allied militias. Several days ago, the rights group Human Rights Watch accused government forces of recruiting child soldiers in the same area.

War broke out in South Sudan in December 2013 after the governing Sudan People’s Liberation Movement and the army split, triggering ethnic killings and fighting in many parts of the country. The two sides recently signed a peace agreement designed to establish a power-sharing government.

The agreement set a March 5 deadline to reach a comprehensive peace deal. The government recently postponed elections that were due in June for two years.'

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I always thought "Slip Kid" performed by The Who was a song about boys being forced (or naively volunteering) into warfare. According to Wikipedia, it wasn't. It seems at the least, it prevailed on that imagery. I wonder if Pete Townshend ever thought of the immorality of forcing boys so young into combat roles during a civil war? Amazing to me it only seems to be getting some attention now after thousands of years of it happening since modern civilization began.

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Submitted by Matt on Mon, 2015-02-23 01:28