Undermining international law, President accommodates torture and assassination. What next?

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Curt Wechsler, The World Can't Wait
on October 30, 2010 2:42 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
Use of child soldiers:

Rebel groups like Sudan's Justice and Equality Movement, shown in this video frame, use child soldiers. The United States will exempt four governments from penalties for doing so. [Al Jazeera]

In a brief and little-noticed announcement on Monday, the White House said Barack Obama, the president, had decided to exempt Chad, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Sudan and Yemen from the Child Soldiers Prevention Act of 2008, which prohibits funding for foreign governments' militaries if they recruit or use child soldiers...

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