People’s Defense Units command order banning recruitment and use of children
People’s Defense Units command order banning recruitment and use of children
COUNTRY:
Syria
DOCUMENT TYPE:
Other
YEAR ADOPTED:
2013
Description
This command order condemned and prohibited the recruitment of children into the People’s Defense Units (YPG). However, despite this order, children younger than 15 years were reportedly subsequently still taken by the YPG to indoctrination and training camps.
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