OK have you ever thought about what wil happen to the Children? Don't you know you can count me out!

Doctors in Iraq and the former Yugoslavia believe DU has had a dramatic impact on children of war in those regions.
Dr. Asad Eesa, chief resident at the children's and maternity hospital in Basra in southern Iraq, recently treated an 8 1/2-year-old girl who lives in an area where depleted uranium ammunition was fired during the Gulf War.

Her prognosis is poor.

"She has an abdominal tumor, neural plastoma, near the kidney," said Eesa, as the crying little girl sat on the floor of a hospital corridor with her mother. "Surely she will die."

[link to www.warchildren.org]

Many children suffer appalling violence as soldiers, but even those who remain 'civilians' can be subjected to horrific experiences. Anything that can be done to adults, however monstrous, can also be visited on children. Children have been tortured as part of collective punishments for whole communities, or as a means of extracting information about peers or parents. They have also been tortured as a way of punishing their parents, or in some cases simply for entertainment. Once immersed in this savage environment, differences of age soon seem irrelevant.

This also means that children are as likely as adults to be captured and imprisoned. The treatment of child prisoners is a matter of increasing concern—particularly in Rwanda where, for the first time in history, children have been imprisoned and are facing trial for genocide.

[link to www.unicef.org]