President Obama supports child genocide

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The US Child Soldiers Prevention Act of 2008 prohibits the US
government from providing military financing, military training, and
several other categories of US military assistance to governments
using child soldiers. The Child Soldiers Prevention Act went into
effect in 2010. In June, 2011 the State Department determined that the
Burma, Chad, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, Somalia, and
Yemen governments were all using child soldiers in their armed forces
or allied militias. On October 4, 2011, the Obama administration
announced waivers to the Child Soldiers Prevention Act, which allows
continued military assistance to Chad, the Democratic Republic of
Congo, and Yemen despite the continued use of children in their armed
forces. The US also continues to provide military assistance to the
Sudan People’s Liberation Army which is now the military for South
Sudan,which also continues to use child soldiers but, since South
Sudan gained independence in July after the State Department issued
its list, the Obama administration says that the law doesn't apply.
The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo will continue to
receive US military training and other assistance, even though it has
hundreds of child soldiers in its armed forces and has failed to
cooperate with the UN in setting up a formal demobilization plan. Some
army commanders have even actively blocked efforts to demobilize
children from their units. Officers known to recruit child soldiers,
including Bosco Ntaganda, who is wanted by the International Criminal
Court, have been promoted and serve openly in the army’s command.
In Yemen, as recently as August, Human Rights Watch observed child
soldiers serving with the Central Security, an elite paramilitary
unit, and General Security, a police force in Sanaa. Human Rights
Watch also observed child soldiers as recently as August among the
ranks of the army’s First Armored Division, which defected to the
opposition in March. First Armored Division officers told Human Rights
Watch that while the unit was still aligned with the government, it
had recruited children who were 15 years old and even younger. This
year, the State Department has requested US$35 million in foreign
military financing for Yemen. Despite ongoing volatility in Yemen that
puts children at continuing risk of recruitment, the White House
issued a full waiver for the funds, with no conditions.
President Obama excuses these waivers by claiming that the countries
were “on notice” and needed time to address their child soldiers
problem. The only effective course of action the US government can
take towards eliminating the recruitment and use of children in armed
conflict, military participation and labor exploitation is to withhold
any assistance afforded to these countries until they've successfully
abolished the use and exploitation of innocent children who are robbed
of their childhood.
Please follow or copy and paste the link bellow and tell the President
to stop killing children.

http://www.change.org/petitions/president-obama-stop-killing-children

Thank you
Caleb