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World A child plays on a destroyed street in Homs, Syria
Syria: Are the Rebels Using Children in the Conflict?

Armed opposition groups fighting in Syria are using children for combat and other military purposes, with children as young as 14 serving in at least three opposition brigades, transporting weapons and supplies and acting as lookouts, and children as young as 16 have carrying arms and taking combat roles against government forces.

World UPDF soldier
Rape as a Weapon of War: What Can the Law Do?

During the chaos of war, rape is used by the powerful as a deliberate strategy to destroy any opposition. Historically, the “excesses of war” were even regarded as inevitable; the rape of women and pillaging of towns simply perks of victory but the law has changed.