Dakhla– The International Center for Research on the Prevention of Child Soldiers in Dakhla has condemned the alleged military recruitment of children in the Tindouf camps.
In a press release days ago, the Center said it remained “deeply concerned by the continued systematic recruitment” of child soldiers in the Tindouf camps after witnessing a parade of hundreds of children (boys and girls) in military uniforms.
“We have directly expressed our deep concerns to the international community and hold the perpetrators legally and morally responsible for this flagrant violation and contempt of international humanitarian law,” added the same source.
The Center also recalls in its press release that the parties to the Convention on the Rights of the Child have the obligation to respect, protect and fulfill the rights of children to life, privacy, freedom of thought, and peaceful assembly.
“Our Center urges all human rights activists, researchers, and journalists to demonstrate professional conscience and intellectual integrity so that no pressure is exerted on parents by the Polisario militia”, he concludes.
Created in 2022 in Dakhla, the International Center for Research on the Prevention of Child Soldiers aims to contribute to the fight against the recruitment of child soldiers, in particular through raising awareness of their fate, the processes of their recruitment, as well as the underlying causes that fuel the persistence of this scourge.
The subject lends itself to further interrogation for plain answers. Is it to raise children to be militant by providing them with military training, or is the Boy Scout system practiced in many other jurisdictions to infuse military tenets such as hard work, and discipline in upstarts?
