The United Nations said December 12 that the MILF has agreed to stop recruiting children as soldiers in combat. The Philippine Government is trying to protect children from this practice. The United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-Generral for Children and Armed Conflict, Radhika Coomaraswamy, said "the MILF will enter into an action plan with UNICEF to stop" this use of children in war. ((STAR NEWS, December 13)
This UN Representative had just returned from Central Mindanao where she had observed first-hand measures to protect children in war zones. "The primary purpose of the UN visit was to discuss ways and means of securing the release of children being recruited by the MILF and The New People's Army (Communist NPA). She strongly recommended child protection as part of the PEACE PROCESS so needed in Southern Philippines.
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