The World of Child Soldiers
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2007
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
They should be reading books or playing games. Instead they’re carrying guns. Also, a shake-up at the Joint Chiefs and a female reporter's life in Saudi Arabia. Sara Terry guest hosts.
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| 0:00.0 | From PRI, Public Radio International and KCRW Santa Monica, this is To the Point. |
| 0:07.7 | They should be playing games. Instead, they're carrying guns. The world of child soldiers. |
| 0:17.7 | I'm Sarah Terry sitting in for Warren Olney, and this is to the point from Public Radio International, a daily look at the issues Americans care about most. |
| 0:26.8 | Baby brigades, little bees, small boys' units. The names may change, but the reality doesn't. |
| 0:34.0 | Child soldiers, more than a quarter million of them around the world fighting adults' wars. |
| 0:39.4 | Why does the U.S. give military aid to countries that use child soldiers? What impact will recent trials |
| 0:45.1 | have on punishing children in arms or punishing the adults who recruit them? What kind of |
| 0:50.3 | rehabilitation is possible for children who have killed? On Reporter's Notebook, Behind the Vale, a reporter's life in Saudi Arabia. |
| 0:58.0 | First, the news. |
| 0:59.6 | Support for To the Point comes from subscribers of KCRW Santa Monica and from the Public Radio International Program Fund, |
| 1:07.0 | whose contributors include the Ford Foundation and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. |
| 1:12.4 | I'm Sarah Terry sitting in for Warren Only, back with To the Point from PRI. We'll be talking about |
| 1:18.0 | child soldiers today. There are more than 250,000 of them around the world, and they've fought in |
| 1:23.9 | half of the globe's 55 ongoing or recent wars. What impact will legal efforts have on |
| 1:30.3 | punishing those who recruit children for killing? How does rehabilitation help children who leave the |
| 1:35.8 | front lines? We'll hear from a former girl soldier who was abducted and forced to fight in northern |
| 1:40.8 | Uganda. On reporter's notebook, slouching in the Saudi kingdom, a reporter's tale of segregation, |
| 1:47.9 | sexism, and social mores. |
| 1:50.0 | First, this news update. |
| 1:51.6 | Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced today that General Peter Pace will be stepping |
| 1:55.7 | down in September as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, along with Vice Chair, Ed Jambastiani. |
| 2:02.5 | Gates told reporters today that the decision had absolutely nothing to do with his view of the performance of either man. |
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