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Like Fish In A Barrell

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One of the soldiers had clearly had enough and aimed his gun at them. He can’t shoot, we thought; they’re unarmed and they’re only boys. But he did. He took aim and fired directly at them. They scattered, and for a moment we thought one of them had been hit. Not content with this result, the soldier climbed up on to one of the concrete posts, clearly visible against the sky, and took slow aim and fired again, and again.

I have never before watched soldiers entice children like mice into a trap and murder them for sport

Children have been shot in other conflicts I have covered – death squads gunned them down in El Salvador and Guatemala, mothers with infants were lined up and massacred in Algeria, and Serb snipers put children in their sights and watched them crumple onto the pavement in Sarajevo – but I have never before watched soldiers entice children like mice into a trap and murder them for sport.

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