Articles by Jo Becker
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US State Department’s Lie about Child Soldiers
Jo Becker | Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2017
27 Jun 2017 – Dozens of children were part of Burma’s armed forces as recently as last week. In Iraq, children have died fighting the Islamic State (also known as ISIS) with Iraqi government military units. But United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson ignored these facts and took Burma and Iraq off the annual list, issued today, that identifies countries that use child soldiers or support militias that do.
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Jo Becker and Scott Shane – The New York Times,
4 Jun 2012
This was the enemy, served up in the latest chart from the intelligence agencies: 15 Qaeda suspects in Yemen with Western ties. The mug shots and brief biographies resembled a high school yearbook layout. Several were Americans. Two were teenagers, including a girl who looked even younger than her 17 years.
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