Current Events

Earlier this year , the Afghan President Hamid Karzai asked for the discharge of 20 child suicide bombers found or arrested by the government. These youth were “employed” by the Taliban, who told them to pull the trigger on their bomb-vests when they approached foreigners. The children, often from poor neighborhoods, were told that the bombs would spare them and after their mission, they would find a “land of milk and honey.” The President criticized the idea of using children as bombers, though suicide-bombing is generally not a respectable deed, as children are not given a chance to think about what they are doing and they only see a false Taliban future.