IIPM: Millions of young hands are learning to press the trigger...

At any point of time about 300,000 kids are involved in some kind of war or conflict in more than 85 countries. Some are yet to cross their tenth year on Earth. As of now,

Africa alone has more than 200,000 child soldiers involved in wars & armed conflicts in Burundi, Chad, Cote d’Ivoire, Congo, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Somalia, Sudan, & Uganda. As if all these were not enough that an additional 500,000 children are estimated to be involved in paramilitary groups in almost all continents of the world. The worst suffers are the fairer sex, as many girl soldiers (40% of total) are recruited to provide sexual services & are even raped & gang raped in the war camps repeatedly. Such reports no wonder oft en go unreported or at best ignored. This stark reality of millions of kids in this word is incidentally a stark contrast to the affluence that an equal number grow up in developed world. Forget the digital divide, unless steps are taken to restore some sort of parity, be prepared for the coming apocalypse.

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Source: IIPM Editorial, 2008

An IIPM and Management Guru Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri's Initiative