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The oppressive #Pakistani army and #children.🔥🇵🇰🔥

Ustād Yasir

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“Psychological incentives and material temptations such as money or new clothes” learn the truth about how #SDF forces recruit #children after abducting them from their families. Girls and boys, some no older than twelve, left their schools and homes and then vanished from their world cut off from their former lives and from their families’ sight. Weeks or even months later, they suddenly reappeared in photographs wearing military uniforms and carrying weapons among the ranks of the #Syrian Democratic Forces (#SDF). In other cases, families received devastating news that their children had been killed on battlefields they did not choose, but were forced into. This raises a critical question: what is the truth behind the #SDF’s recruitment of #children? A dark reality has been documented by local and international human rights organizations, pointing to the forced recruitment of #boys and #girls in areas under #SDF control, often without the knowledge or consent of their #families. According to reports, the methods used to recruit minors vary. Sometimes, as documented by the Syria Justice and Accountability Center, children are invited to attend media or photography courses affiliated with #SDF units, only to never return home. In other cases, reported by the #Syrian Network for #HumanRights, material and moral incentives such as money or new clothes are used to deceive children. There is also a more brutal method: direct kidnapping, carried out by trained and specialized units that seize children from streets or neighborhoods during times when parental supervision is absent. The vulnerability of these children plays a major role in making them easy targets. Poverty, lack of education, and harsh living conditions particularly in displacement camps leave children exposed to organized recruitment efforts. It was found that individuals affiliated with the #SDF, operating under the name of the Revolutionary Youth Movement, encouraged boys and girls in camps to join military training without their parents’ knowledge. Families often lost contact with their children after they left with recruiters and later learned of their recruitment through official notices from #SDF forces stating that the children were undergoing training. The #Syrian #Network for #HumanRights further reported that #SDF forces threatened many families of abducted children to prevent them from reporting cases to the #UnitedNations or #humanrights organizations. Parents were also barred from visiting their children, and those who attempted to do so were insulted or expelled. As a result, families live in a constant state of anxiety and uncertainty. In some cases, the only evidence parents had of their children’s fate were photographs showing them in military uniforms months after their disappearance. Notably, these recruitment campaigns do not distinguish between boys and girls. #Girls are recruited at similar rates, a practice partly attributed to the #SDF’s ideology, which promotes women’s participation in combat as part of its organizational identity, particularly through female units such as the #YPJ. From a legal perspective, the recruitment and use of children in armed conflict constitutes a grave violation of international humanitarian law and human rights. The Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols prohibit the recruitment or involvement of anyone under the age of fifteen in armed conflict, classifying such acts as war crimes under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Despite this, the practice has continued. The #SDF signed an undertaking with #Geneva Call in 2014 prohibiting the use of #child #soldiers, and later signed a #UN action plan in 2019 pledging to take concrete measures to end and prevent child recruitment. In August 2020, it announced the establishment of an Office for the Protection of #Children in Armed Conflict in areas under its control. However, reality has contradicted these commitments. United Nations annual reports documented continued child recruitment in #SDF-controlled areas, with between 130 and 285 verified cases annually from 2019 to 2023. In 2022 alone, the situation worsened dramatically, with 637 documented cases. This escalation coincided with signs of declining commitment to protective measures, including the closure of a #child protection office in late 2022, raising serious doubts about the #SDF’s seriousness in implementing its promises on the ground. Families of recruited children say these offices brought little change. Complaints were repeatedly filed, yet families received no clear answers or definitive information regarding the whereabouts or fate of their children.

Qusay Noor

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