Volume 46, Number 4 · March 4, 1999
Children in Arms
By John Ryle
In the Firing Line: War and Children's Rights
by Amnesty International UK
Amnesty International UK, 118 pp., $12.95 (paper)
In the 1980s the standard image to emerge from the world's disaster zones was a skeletal child with despairing eyes, clutching the hand of an aid worker. This was subsequently displaced by another stereotype, a bearded guerrilla fighter brandishing an AK-47, its forward-curving magazine silhouetted above his head. Today these two images have morphed into the figure of the child soldier, a gun-toting subteen with wraparound shades and a threatening demeanor, a child who is clearly not on his way to school.
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