Child Soldiers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Recruiting childern under the age of 15 as soldiers is a war crime under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. This fact doesn't seem bother warmongers much. The Democratic Republic of the Congo is one of the countries with the highest numbers of underage soldiers in the world. Militiamen force them to maraud and kill. If these children fall into the hands of their opponents then they suffer the same barbarities that they have caused others to suffer.

The British reporter, Marcus Bleasdale, has been following this crime upon child soldiers for the last ten years and intends to continue doing so.