Jack Lang, x-Minister, now Pres. F

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Subject: Re: Jack Lang, x-Minister, now  Pres. Fr. Parl. Foreign Affairs  Com. slams kid-soldiers

Dawn Star wrote:
> 
> You should know that Jack Lang, in a full page article to Liberation,
> the french national daily, on November 12, (sorry, just recovered it),
> blasted child soldier labor, and cited 50 000 children in the Burmese
> army.
> 
> "Child-soldier: obscene phrase! Tragic reality! Politically pathetic!
> Childrn are the first victims of war: in ten years, world conflicts have
> made 1 million orphans, 2 million deaths, 5 million injured, 11 million
> refugees, 12 million homeless. And more than 300 000 children are
> actually, in 30 countries, soldiers in shorts:  10 000 in Burundi, 19
> 000 in Columbia, 20 000 in Rwanda, 21 000 in Paraguay, 32 000 in Soudan,
> 50 000 in BURMA... 10% of the tamoul tigers are less than 15 years old,
> and children no more than eight years old fight in the Congo Mai-Mai
> militia army...In Cambodia, 20% of the wounded soldiers are between ten
> and 14 years old."
> 
> Thank you Jack Lang. These kid soldiers are probably protecting the 
>French Embassy, now a Total Fina -Elf bunker... It would have been
> timely to denouce that too.

> ds,EBN