NEPALI YOUTH RELEASED FROM MAOIST MILITARY LIFE
February 1st, 2010
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations has started coordinating the training and education of a wasted human resource in Nepal - former teenage soldiers serving in the Maoist side of the recent civil war. Around 3,000 young men and women aged under 16 were found in the ranks of the Maoist army when a ceasefire was announced in May 2006. They are now being 'disqualified' from its forces, as too young to fight - and released from its camps into Nepali society, where the UN will help oversee their integration into civilian work. United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) ...
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