Children As Weapons Of War ???

Here is a complaint from UNICEF:

Children caught in war zones are increasingly being used as weapons of war – recruited to fight, forced to act as suicide bombers, and used as human shields – the United Nations children’s agency has warned.

In a statement summarising 2017 as a brutal year for children caught in conflict, Unicef said parties to conflicts were blatantly disregarding international humanitarian law and children were routinely coming under attack.

Rape, forced marriage, abduction and enslavement had become standard tactics in conflicts across Iraq, Syria and Yemen, as well as in Nigeria, South Sudan and Myanmar.

Some children, abducted by extremist groups, are abused again by security forces when they are released. Others are indirectly harmed by fighting, through malnutrition and disease, as access to food, water and sanitation are denied or restricted.

Some 27 million children in conflict zones have been forced out of school.

“Children are being targeted and exposed to attacks and brutal violence in their homes, schools and playgrounds,” said Manuel Fontaine, Unicef’s director of emergency programmes. “As these attacks continue year after year, we cannot become numb. Such brutality cannot be the new normal.”

You can read the rest @
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/dec/28/children-increasingly-used-as-weapons-of-war-unicef-warns

While this is certainly true and deserves our condemnation, note well the report avoids mentioning that most of these conflicts were caused by the United States and US allies.

None of this will stop unless and until the UN confronts the US, Israel, and Saudi Arabia and forces them to stop it. Doing so will require the entire world to BDS these three main culprits ... and I mean BDS to the extent of TOTAL isolation. I doubt such a thing could be done.