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Child Soldiers I killed for the first time when we captured a soldier near the bridge. My commander ordered me to do it. They tied him up and laid him on the ground. I cut that b*tch's throat with my bayonet. I enjoyed it, and my men opened fire in the air to celebrate. They treated me like a hero." (Fazil, nine year-old volunteer, Afghanistan) There are, literally, thousands of other pre-teen and teenaged children affected by first-hand effects of war, as young soldiers. In October of 2001, the New York Times recorded an Afghani provisional commander, Fazil Ahmend Azimi, announcing that "it's been three decades of our (Afghani) people going backward in terms of education. We have young boys that are more familiar with a Kalashnikov than with school." These young boys, trained for as young as eight years of age have been regimented through highly...

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