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(回答先: ＜子ども兵の解放＞チャドの少年兵（今日のアフリカ） 投稿者 gataro 日時 2007 年 5 月 21 日 10:52:13)
CNN（5月18日）によれば、中央アフリカの反政府軍はユニセフとの協定にもとづいて子ども兵400人を解放することになった。反政府軍は先週すでにユニセフに対して220名の子ども兵士名簿を提出している。子どもたちは家族の元に戻されるだろう。反政府軍のダマネ・ザカリア将軍は子どもたちには学校や仕事に戻ってもらいたいと語っている。
英文記事は次のとおり ⇒
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/05/18/child.soldiers.ap/index.html
Central African Republic rebels to liberate child soldiers
POSTED: 1355 GMT (2155 HKT), May 18, 2007
Story Highlights
• Rebel leader to release 400 child soldiers, according to UNICEF statement
• The rebels had given an initial list of 220 child soldiers to UNICEF last week
• Children will be sent home to families
• Rebel Gen. Damane Zakaria says he wants them to go back to school, work
BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) -- United Nations officials said on Friday that rebel leaders in the Central African Republic had agreed to begin sending several hundred child soldiers home to their families.
In a statement, a spokeswoman for UNICEF said Gen. Damane Zakaria, whose army controls a portion of the northeast of the country, had agreed to liberate around 400 children. An initial list of 220 child soldiers was handed to UNICEF last week.
Last month, Zakaria's men and the government signed a peace accord. The group led by Zakaria, however, is only one of several rebel factions active in the nation of 3.6 million.
Contacted by telephone in his rebel stronghold of Gordil, 280 miles (450 kilometers) from Bangui, Zakaria confirmed that the rebel Union of Democratic Forces Coalition was prepared to sign an agreement with the U.N. agency in coming days. He estimates that roughly 500 children will be freed as a result of the accord.
"The liberation of these child soldiers will be a good thing for the rebellion because we want all of them to go back to school or learn a job," Zakaria said.
UNICEF spokeswoman Anne Boher applauded the agreement, noting that the Central African Republic had not even signed an international accord meant to end the use of children as soldiers.
"This move signals a voluntary step on the part of armed groups in CAR toward respecting children's rights," she said.
Central African Republic has suffered decades of army revolts, coups and rebellions since it gained independence from France in 1960. Poor and landlocked, it is governed by President Francois Bozize, who came to power in a 2003 rebel war that ousted his predecessor.
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