15 senior South Sudanese officers named in recruitment of child soldiers
Child soldiers surrender guns during a disarmament exercise in South Sudan on February 10, 2015. Fifteen commanders in the country's army and the rebel movement have been named by a human-rights watchdog for using child soldiers in the country’s civil war. PHOTO | FILE
Fifteen commanders in the South Sudanese army and the rebel movement have been named by a human-rights watchdog for using child soldiers in the country’s civil war.
International civil society and humanitarian organisations are now lobbying the United Nations to push for the trials of the named commanders at the hybrid court for South Sudan to be established by the African Union Commission as part of the implementation of the peace agreement.
