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C H I L D R E N I N W A R : A N E W E T H I C N E E D E D

The main casualties of wars have been soldiers. No longer. In the last decade alone, an estimated 1.5 million children have been killed in armed conflicts. A further 4 million have been disabled, maimed, blinded, brain-damaged. At least 5 million more have been uprooted from their communities.

More recently, the rape of girls has been used as a systematic weapon of war in former Yugoslavia. And in many parts of the world, children have been tortured and forced to watch or participate in atrocities. Hundreds of thousands have been crippled by land-mines. Many more have been recruited into armies, given drugs and weapons, and desensitized to o&ers' pain. Uncounted millions of these young people are suffering from post-traumatic stress disorders, a new and chilling term in the international lexicon.

The Declaration signed by the world's political leaders at the 1990 World Summit for Children specifically asked, "that periods of tranquility and special relief corridors be observed for the benefit of children, where war and violence are still taking place."

Abstracted from : UNICEF : The State of the WorM's Children 1994; page : 4