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Originally Posted by silent_jay
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Yeah, it's all very interesting what happens when a child soldier captured during an incident is then run through the questionable apparatus of "justice" built around the GWOT.
Within that apparatus, it appears that being a brown Muslim child soldier specifically is a really bad thing. Even your own country might abandon you. However, I wouldn't have expected Canada to be the only one to do it---and with a minor, no less.
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Last edited by Baraka_Guru; 07-18-2010 at 11:00 AM..
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