【社会】缅甸童兵情况深度调查
有国际机构对缅甸各武装力量作了深入调查,发现各方都广泛存在使用童兵的情况,这里举了两个例子。
一是缅甸政府军,它们在各条战线广泛使用童兵,如掸邦、钦邦、孟邦,缅甸政府军甚至强迫罗兴亚儿童替缅甸军队劳动。
二是克钦独立军,KIA确实存在将未成年人员征召入伍的问题,但KIA方面解释那只是对一些生活困难的少年提供的援助,把他们集中起来,执行的是军事化管理,他们之中并没有任何人上前线去打仗,只是平时干一些力所能及的劳动。经过国际机构调查,发现情况确实如此。
A billboard promoting a “No Child Soldiers” campaign in Rangoon. (Photo: Steve Tickner / The Irrawaddy)
For more than ten years, Child Soldiers International has documented the widespread recruitment and use of children as soldiers in Burma, officially known as Myanmar. We have conducted three in-depth investigations on the drivers and patterns of recruitment and use of child soldiers by both the Burmese military and non-state armed groups, which were published in “Chance for Change: Ending the recruitment and use of child soldiers in Myanmar” in January 2013, “Under the Radar: Ongoing recruitment and use of children by the Burma” in January 2015 and “A Dangerous Refuge: Ongoing child recruitment by the Kachin Independence Army” in June 2015.
Ongoing Recruitment and Use of Children in the Burmese Military