![]() "When you kill thousands of people in Balkans, Asia, Africa, you are in prison for five or six years." Many war criminals, she criticizes, are released prematurely simply because of their good behavior and age. "When you kill a European in a car accident, you get 10 years in prison," says Keco-Isakovic. While the UN study says children should be permitted to seek reparations for violation of their rights, the children of Sarajevo have never received justice commensurate with the crimes committed against them. "And every night I answered ‘no, no, you shall not die,' and I touched him and held him while he was falling asleep." Emina Keco-Isakovic is convinced that all children from besieged Sarajevo still suffer from trauma in the form of waiting to die. Almost 10,000 people were killed, including 1,500 children.Įvery night, Keco-Isakovic recalls, when the cannon firing would start over the city, her 10-year-old son asked her whether he would die that night. The siege of the capital, Sarajevo, lasted nearly four years. Waiting to die Hearing cannon firing every night traumatized many children Image: picture-alliance / dpa/epaĪmong a group of experts who recently convened in Geneva to discuss these issues, was the Ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Emina Keco-Isakovic, who said she is still haunted by memories from the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which broke out in 1992, because she remembers how anxious her son was. The other big question, also analyzed in the study, is the extent to which children who commit international crimes during conflict should be held accountable for their actions. They are forced to commit atrocities and are often prosecuted for these crimes.Ī United Nations study, called "Children and Justice During and in the Aftermath of Armed Conflict," examines how children caught in wars can seek justice for the grave violations they have suffered. ![]() ![]() Many children are recruited to fight for governments and rebel groups. Many are killed, maimed, raped and psychologically traumatized for their whole lives. Millions of children are victims of armed conflict. ![]()
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