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Evan Shapiro's List: Chad
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Apr 30, 09
child soldiers in africa
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owever, a law adopted the following year states that although volunteers must be 18 years of age, a non-emancipated minor can be enrolled with the consent of his tutor.4 It is not clear how these two laws can be legally reconciled. Moreover, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation indicated that there is no minimum age for the participation in an armed conflict
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Chadian public prosecutor, quoted in the report, denounced recruitment by the gendarmerie of children aged between 12 and 15 which were used at checkpoints to arrest the so-called ‘codos’ (members of armed opposition groups). He added that these children frequently denounced people who were not members of the opposition groups. The authorities have admitted this unlawful recruitment
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May 01, 09
info on chad
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The importance of a poor country like Chad controlling such uranium deposits is for the monetary value of the metal on the world market. Chad certainly has no nuclear weapons program, nor does it have any nuclear reactors. Therefore, Chad can export the uranium for desperately needed funds. The concern for the West is that the material does not fall into the possession of governments which do not respect the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
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