{"id":16462,"date":"2013-02-06T08:42:48","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T13:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theredphoenixapl.org\/?p=16462"},"modified":"2013-02-06T08:42:48","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T13:42:48","slug":"syrias-rebels-hype-their-child-soldier-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/2013\/02\/syrias-rebels-hype-their-child-soldier-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria\u2019s Rebels Hype Their Child Soldier Training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/ad2013020778810-1-a_free_syrian_a.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16463\" alt=\"AD2013020778810-1-A_Free_Syrian_A\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/ad2013020778810-1-a_free_syrian_a.jpg?resize=462%2C308\" width=\"462\" height=\"308\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4 id=\"pagesub\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">&#8216;Children Are the Best Soldiers I Know,&#8217; Military Defector Insists<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">It\u2019s one of those things you\u2019re not supposed to brag about, but Syrian rebels are praising their ability to attract child soldiers and turn them into \u201ckilling machines\u201d to use against the Assad government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u201c<span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenational.ae\/news\/world\/middle-east\/syrian-rebels-are-forging-child-soldiers-into-killing-machines\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Children are the best soldiers I know<\/span><\/a><\/span>,\u201d declared former Syrian Sgt. Abdel Razzaq, a defector who is now training child soldiers to \u201cnot be scared of war and not to hesitate when the time comes to kill.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Razzaq\u2019s \u201cacademy,\u201d a former school in a rebel-held part of the Aleppo Province, insists that they do not force anyone into joining, and that they have no shortage of children eager to join up and learn to fight.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">UNICEF seemed to back this in their own statements, saying that there was \u201cno active recruitment of children\u201d and that it was rather parents pushing their teenaged children to join the war. International law still prohibits anyone from using child soldiers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2013\/02\/06\/syrias-rebels-hype-their-child-soldier-training\/\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Fuente<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Children Are the Best Soldiers I Know,&#8217; Military Defector Insists It\u2019s one of those things you\u2019re not supposed to brag about, but Syrian rebels are..<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,119],"tags":[197,345,277],"class_list":["post-16462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-war","tag-imperialism","tag-reactionary-watch","tag-syria"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenix.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ad2013020778810-1-a_free_syrian_a.jpg?fit=462%2C308&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}