‘I killed hundreds of people’: Meet the children forced to wage endless war in the DRC

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The Independent

2026/03/26 - 10:02 501 مشاهدة

For decades, children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have been recruited to serve as cannon fodder in the protracted and bloody conflicts riddling the east of the country. As rights groups warn of one of the world’s most severe recruitment crises, The Independent speaks to children forced to kill for warring militias. Alex Croft reports

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