The war crimes included murder, rape, the use of child soldiers and the amputation of limbs.
Sons and daughters are sold for sex, abducted as child soldiers, or coerced into involuntary labor.
But they are not removing the road blocks or taking weapons, even from the child soldiers.
Jal tells Terry Gross that part of the SPLA regimen was designed to deaden child soldiers' feelings.
He faces 10 counts of conscripting child soldiers, murder, terrorising communities and using rape as a weapon of war.
The other fallacy is that the issue of child soldiers is isolated to armed militias in parts of Africa.
Child soldiers can be trained in vocational, trade and business skills to enable them to participate in economic activities.
Mental health counselling may prove to be a sine qua non to successfully re-integrating child soldiers into civilian life.
Gen Ntaganda faces 10 counts of conscripting child soldiers, murder, terrorising communities and using rape as a weapon of war.
BBC: Bosco Ntaganda: US wants swift ICC transfer from Rwanda
In 2006, the ICC issued a warrant for Mr. Ntaganda's arrest on charges relating to the use of child soldiers.
Some child soldiers are recruited, openly and legally, into national armies where care is taken over their training and welfare.
The rebel groups are reported to be using child soldiers in the province, which is rich in diamonds, gold and timber.
Prosecutors accuse him of using child soldiers and the UN says he controls several mines in the east of the country.
The United Nations children's agency, Unicef, has repeatedly issued statements accusing Col Karuna and his faction of forcibly recruiting child soldiers.
The ICC accuses him of using child soldiers and the UN says he controls several mines in the east of the country.
Meanwhile, opposition and pro-government militias are recruiting child soldiers as the country faces a rebellion in the north, the United Nations warned.
James Elder, a spokesman for Unicef in Sri Lanka, calls the centre a genuine attempt to help child soldiers learn how to be civilians.
Four years ago, the rebels promised the UN Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, Olara Otunnu, that they would not recruit child soldiers.
The study concluded that there were strong similarities between children involved in drug wars in Rio's slums and child soldiers elsewhere in the world.
America's State Department has cited credible reports of government involvement in extra-judicial killings, and complicity in the recruitment of child soldiers by its allies.
Conflict affects education in a variety of ways, through attacks on schools and teachers to the recruitment of child soldiers, forced displacement and psychosocial distress.
Responsible for the coordination of thousands of peacekeepers in conflict zones throughout the world, and leading negotiations for the release of child soldiers in Uganda.
The state crumbled further under Kabila's rule, and rebellion followed rebellion until he was shot by one of his own former child soldiers in 2001.
Child soldiers have been used by armed groups in recent and ongoing conflicts in South Asia, Southeast Asia, the Middle East and South America.
Hope North, a boarding school for escaped child soldiers and more.
To its credit, the United States has laws (the Child Soldier Prevention Act) that prevent military aid to countries and groups that employ child soldiers.
Unicef is calling for countries to demobilise all child soldiers, to provide support for their reintegration into society and to provide them with psychological and social care.
Recently a recent report by Save the Children sounded the alarm over the increased use of child soldiers by a cultlike rebel group the Lord's Resistance Army.
Ali Mahdi Nouri (Sudan) founded in 2004 the Al-Bugaa Theatre, which travels around conflict zones in Sudan and stages plays performed by child soldiers and war orphans.
All of these individuals face charges before international criminal tribunals for horrific acts, including attacks on civilians, murder, the recruitment and use of child soldiers, and rape.
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