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In
the 1300s the Ottoman Turks kidnapped young Christian boys and
essentially brainwashed them into being loyal to the Sultan, the ruler
of the Ottoman Empire. Hard-trained, these boys became the elite military unit in the Middle East, and perhaps Europe. They were called Janissaries. Interestingly, Islam prohibited the use of Muslim boys under the age of 15 in war, but made no such protections for Christians or Jews The History of Child Soldiers |
Friday, March 6, 1998 Details from an original report by Tracy Wilkinson Los Angeles Times Human rights and legal experts strongly condemned a recent Israeli Supreme Court decision permitting "Arabic non-citizens" to be held as "bargaining chips" for use in securing the freedom of Israeli prisoners of war. The high court admitted that imprisoning Lebanese guerrillas and other Arabs, many of whom have not been tried or have served their sentences, is a "painful" violation of human rights. But Israel's security concerns and the desire to retrieve missing or captured Israeli soldiers outweigh the abuse of human rights according to the court. "The high court has legalized hostage-taking,"said Elizabeth Hodgkin, a senior analyst with Amnesty International in Tel Aviv. "This is a terrible decision. . . . If an armed group takes hostages, it is universally condemned. And now it's OK for a state to behave like an armed group? It's OK for a state to hold hostages?" |
Israel arrested 40 Palestinians in a raid Tuesday while it also imposed new punishments on Hamas prisoners as the hunt expands for three Israeli teens who Israel believes Hamas operatives abducted in the West Bank. Tuesday's arrests brought the total number of Palestinians detained since the teens disappeared Thursday to more than 200, most of them Hamas activists, the biggest West Bank crackdown on the militant group in almost a decade. Israel has vowed to exact a heavy price from Hamas, saying the aim of the military operation goes beyond searching for the boys. |
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