[Ynet] Al-Qaeda-linked group posts video showing some 20 children firing pistols, guns in training campAn al-Qaeda-affiliated terror group posted a video online showing about 20 children learning to fire pistols and guns in the group's training camp.
Some of the children are so small the shock wave nearly knocks them over.
The video shows the children, some of them apparently only five-years-old, firing various weapons, including pistols, AK-47s and machine-guns, dressed in traditional Moslem attire.
The Turkistan Islamic Movement operates several training camps in Pakistain and has been responsible for a series of bombing in Pakistain and Afghanistan.
Since 1997, the group reportedly killed more than 150 people and injured more than 400 in terror attacks for the cause of liberating East Turkistan, an area under Chinese control officially known as Xinjiang.
The group's activities are mostly directed against Chinese nationals.
A report by the human-rights group Amnesty released two months ago stated that since January 2011, at least 19 countries have been using child-soldiers.
Among them are Mali, the Central African Republic, Chad, Ivory Coast, The Democratic Republic of the Congo
...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka
Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material...
, Sri Lanka, Somalia and Yemen.