1. The two major criticisms aimed at Farc are that it recruits children and that it carries out acts of random violence. 2. Children are forcibly recruited or sometimes volunteer, pressured by a culture of violence, or they are driven to join because they are poor or orphaned. 3. Dr. John Siegfried, deputy vice president of the association, said it might be difficult for drug makers to recruit children for clinical trials. 4. Many private schools actively recruit children from a wide range of ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds. 5. Moreover, because modern conflicts tend to be civil wars that drag on, children are recruited as soldiers after manpower grows scarce. 6. Other members began to arrive from Belize, and the group also recruited neighborhood children into its operation, an investigator said. 7. Recruiting children is also difficult in homes where Scouting is not part of the family history. 8. The other children were recruited for the study from an after-school program. 9. The Tigers have recruited children to serve in their army and have committed ghastly atrocities. 10. The Tigers are not the only group recruiting children in Sri Lanka, Amnesty International reported. |