Military Use of Children
See also: Military use of children- Optional protocol on the involvement of children in armed conflict in terms of the Convention on the Rights of the Child
- United Nations Security Council Resolution 1261
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“His ugliness was the stuff of legend. In an age of affordable beauty, there was something heraldic about his lack of it. The antique arm whined as he reached for another mug. It was a Russian military prosthesis, a seven-function force-feedback manipulator, cased in grubby pink plastic.”
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“There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
—Bible: New Testament Jesus, in Matthew, 8:12.
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