UN puts Syria on list for killing children

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The report said the United Nations has received reports of grave violations.

12 June,2012 10:41 am

A new U.N. report includes Syrian government forces and their allied shabiha militias for the first time on a list of 52 governments and armed groups that recruit, kill or sexually attack children in armed conflicts.Secretary-General Ban Ki-moons annual report on children and armed conflict released Monday names 32 persistent perpetrators including seven government security forces that have been on the list for at least five years. He expressed grave concern at the unacceptably high, and growing, number of long-term abusers of children.In Syria, the report said the United Nations has received reports of grave violations against children since March 2011 when protests against President Bashar Assads government began.It said children as young as nine years old have been victims of killing, torture and sexual violence.