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Eye witness: Children as young as six and seven having been used as suicide bombers by al-Shabab
BBC News http://www.childrensrightsinstitute.org/292/eye-witness-children-as-young-as-six-and-seven
The armed siege at the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi has focused attention on the al-Qaeda affiliate, al-Shabab. When the attack happened, the BBC's Panorama programme had been investigating the recruitment pipeline of young Muslims through Kenya to join the Islamist group in Somalia. I meet Makaburi in a room not much bigger than a cupboard, in Mombasa, eastern Kenya. It is not a place you would expect to meet a radical cleric who describes himself as Kenya's number one target in the country's fight to disrupt al-Shabab's recruitment network. © 2024 Children's Rights Institute. |