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Inside Europe: The plight of child soldiers

Lisa Bryant
June 22, 2018

One of the world’s biggest populations of child soldiers lives in the Democratic Republic of the Congo — about 30,000 children are forced to serve armed groups as soldiers, sexual slaves and laborers, according to UNICEF. Lisa Bryant caught up with one former child soldier at a new peace forum in the French region of Normandy, not far from the D-Day beaches of World War II.

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