![]() If you get them doing so, bring them to the court martial and subject them to the law,” he concluded. “Also, forces should not attack schools and hospitals, or commit acts of rape. “Commanders, it’s your responsibility to ensure the absence of children in the army,” said Mr. ![]() Speaking to members of the Tiger Battalion of the South Sudan People’s Defence Forces (SSPDF) at their military camp in Kerepi, Alfred Orono Orono, Senior Child Protection Officer and head of the Child Protection Unit at the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) reminded the military commanders of their responsibility. “We found these boys lying next to the remains of their parents, who had been killed during a crossfire with SSPDF at Loa village of Pageri county in 2016,” he explained. “I assure you the joint team that we do not have child soldiers, except for two orphans aged 16 and 17 years,” said Brigadier General Kenyi George Lam, Officer-in-Charge of Ashwa cantonment site for the Sudan people’s Liberation Army in Opposition and South Sudan Opposition Alliance. The first in a series of planned screening missions, the two-week exercise was aimed at verifying recruitment of children as soldiers, as South Sudanese armed forces seek to clear their name from the United Nation’s list of grave violators against children. A recent mission to establish whether there were children in the armed forces in South Sudan’s Eastern Equatoria region has returned a clean scoresheet, as not a single child was found within the ranks of both the opposition and government forces. ![]()
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