Children suffer severely from Myanmar’s decades-old pocket wars between various ethnic armed groups and government security forces, the United Nations Office of the Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict said in a statement on Tuesday.
The fourth UN Secretary-General report on the impact of armed conflict on children in Myanmar, covering the period from February 1, 2013 to June 30, 2017, noted that despite the signing of the National Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) with eight armed ethnic groups “grave violations were still registered during the reporting period, with recruitment and use being by far the most documented violation, followed by killing and maiming.”
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Source: Myanmar Times