More Than 200 Child Soldiers Released in South Sudan

More than 200 South Sudanese child soldiers were freed Tuesday at a ceremony in Bakiwiri, near the city of Yambio. Forty children dressed in military or police uniforms marched in a symbolic military parade, then laid down their weapons and removed their fatigues, as instructed by a commanding officer. They replaced their uniforms with U.N. Mission in South Sudan-issued T-shirts emblazoned with the hashtag, "Children are not Soldiers." In war-ravaged South Sudan, that...

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