let's save the young

Africa’s children are getting a raw deal. We had heard of children being kidnapped by the armed groups fighting in Congo and used for carrying ammunition or for sex. Now it has come to light that children from many African countries, especially Nigeria, are being sold by their parents to unscrupulous agents, who assure them that their kids will see a great future in foreign lands. Helpless African parents living in poverty are taken in by this con-talk. But these children are brought to Britain and abused. They are used to get welfare benefits. They are used in hotels and restaurants and are sexually abused.

Britain seems to have become a haven for these traders in children. Some of these agents are procuring children from Romania from similarly poor parents and then use them in organized gangs.

It being difficult to erase the basic cause of child trafficking, which is poverty in Africa and the East European countries. The onus of stopping it lies with the British authorities. They have to increase police surveillance and be on the look-out for these criminals. Moreover, proper care must be taken of the children released through police action and efforts made that they have a good future.

A more comprehensive solution will be to reduce poverty in Africa. This will prevent parents selling off their children. This is easily said than done. As long as poverty will exist, it will keep spawning more evils.

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Children of Gaza, playing war games with butchered innocence

In some countries children use guns for fun-shootings. If a few classmates die, one can even get famous. In other countries children wielding guns are so common that when Times Online reports that, hardly anyone cares to mention any names. If you are born in the wrong side of the globe then even if you shoot your whole city down, no one will bat an eyelid.

So clich鳠justify the violent games that kids are playing in the Gaza strip. Only these children do not need the television to learn guerrilla warfare. Everything is happening right in front of their eyes. And unlike the sociopaths in the West, who kill for pleasure, these kids may have to kill someday for necessity. They may have to defend their communities in the future against US and Zionist aggression.

They are playing ?raid-the-houses?, ?torture-the-prisoner? and ?curfew? games. The innocent world of the child has been stained by the dark stain of human blood. Palestinian kids are being forced to grow up before their time. Each child who is born brings us the message that God has not yet tired of humans. Children are the only hope for our blighted planet. But when these kids are being sucked into violence so soon in their lives, we are reminded of something Christ said. The Lord had said that if anyone misleads these tiny ones then it is better for that person to hang a grindstone around his neck and drown.

If the US?s President Bush is a Christian, then we know what he has to do. Christ is clear. The mess in the Middle East is a creation of the US. By now Israel and Palestine would have found peace if there was no meddling US there. The US is there in the guise of a peace-monger but all it wants is the oil.

And how so much we write, for Bush and his cronies only US kids matter, Palestinian children do not even deserve individual naming. Now, do we name insects, vermin? The Eastern and Asian people are so much vermin burdening the white world. That is what developed nations think of us.

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Via: Times Online