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dArKeR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-27-03 06:25 PM
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'Aids orphans are ending up in Africa's wars'
Nairobi - The rising number of Aids orphans in Africa is providing more and more child soldiers for the continent's many wars, a charity organisation said on Tuesday.

According to Save The Children, by 2010, there will be 40 million orphans from Aids and other diseases aged below 15 from the hardest-hit regions of sub-Saharan Africa.

"The more and more orphans there are, the more children we have in the armies. Where you have more children lacking family care, the more child soldiers you have," Douglas Webb, a spokesperson with Save The Children said.

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=68&art_id=qw1064307240530B216&set_id=1

As Bush and his Children of God, American Conservative Christians, withhold AIDS aid packages from African nations that council their citizens on planned parenthood, birth control, use of condoms...
Tell me honestly who's going to go to hell?
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