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Syrian Government Lands On UN's 'List Of Shame'

by Michele Kelemen, NPR
June 12, 2012

The United Nations Special Representative for children and armed conflict has put the Syrian military and its allied shabiha militias on its "list of shame" this year. The report says that children as young as 9 years old have been killed, arrested, tortured and used as human shields.

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