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Proliferation of Guns Contributes to Rising Use of Child Killers in Combat
27 July 2008
National (Abu Dhabi)
UNITED NATIONS, New York — Emmanuel Jal is not certain, but thinks he was six years old when he was forced to fight alongside southern rebels in Sudan's bloody civil war, becoming a hate-filled gun-toter, determined to "kill as many Arabs or Muslims as possible".
Today, Mr Jal is an emerging star of Africa's rap scene, with lyrics on his recently released second album, WARchild, fuelling debate on one of the most complex moral issues of the modern era: child... (GunPolicy.org)