A report by U.N.-backed investigators into Syria's war is for the first time focusing solely on the plight of the children caught up in the conflict.
In Syria’s civil war, girls as young as 9 have been raped and forced into sexual slavery. Boys have been tortured, forced into military training and ordered to carry out killings in public. Children have been targeted by sniper fire and used as bargaining chips to extract ransoms.
The group, known as the Commission of Inquiry for Syria, has been scrutinizing and chronicling human rights violations since shortly after the conflict broke out in 2011. In their report released Thursday, the investigators say that the abuse and violence against Syrian children go well beyond getting caught in the crossfire of warring sides.
The report does, however, say that 5 million children have been displaced internally and outside Syria, “robbed of their childhood” by violations from all sides.
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