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Element:
P.11. Evidence inferred from a utterance, a document or a deed.
Michael Cottier, "Article 8" in Otto Triffterer, ed, Commentary on the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (1999) para. 228:
"404 "To conscript" is defined as "to compel to military service by conscription, to enlist compulsorily", THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONNARY 848 (Vol. III, reprint 1978"), and as to "force someone by law to serve in one of the armed forces", THE CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL DICTIONARY 289 (1995)."
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UNICEF, Adult War, Child Soldiers: Voices of Children Involved in Armed Conflict in the East Asia and Pacific Region (2002), p. 24:
Mark Iacono, "The Child Soldiers of Sierra Leone: Are They Accountable for Their Actions in War?" 26 Suffolk Transnatl L. Rev. 445, 448-449:
"[FN22]. See Schuler, supra note 3, at 1 (explaining how RUF rebels spare childs life if child committed acts of violence). Rebels demanded an eight-year-old boy slit his fathers throat or face death along with his parents. Id. At his fathers request, the boy did as the rebels instructed. Id."
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UNICEF, Adult War, Child Soldiers: Voices of Children Involved in Armed Conflict in the East Asia and Pacific Region (2002), p. 24:
[B. Evidentiary comment:]
UNICEF, Adult War, Child Soldiers: Voices of Children Involved in Armed Conflict in the East Asia and Pacific Region (2002), p. 24, 27:
[B. Evidentiary comment:]
The Impact of Armed Conflict on Children, United Nations General Assembly, U.N. Doc. A/51/306.Add.1, 6 September 1996, p.7:
Mark Iacono, "The Child Soldiers of Sierra Leone: Are They Accountable for Their Actions in War?" 26 Suffolk Transnatl L. Rev. 445, 448-449:
"[FN22]. See Schuler, supra note 3, at 1 (explaining how RUF rebels spare childs life if child committed acts of violence). Rebels demanded an eight-year-old boy slit his fathers throat or face death along with his parents. Id. At his fathers request, the boy did as the rebels instructed. Id.
[FN23]. See Schuler, supra note 3, at 1. (explaining commanders belief that children make good soldiers because of impressionability). Olara Otunnu, the U.N. Special Representative for Children in Armed Conflicts, said that commanders desire children soldiers because rebels can easily "mold then into a ruthless, unquestioning instrument." Id. By getting a child to commit one horrid act, rebel leaders know such a child will obey subsequent orders. See id.
[FN24]. See Brutal Child Army Grows Up, BBC News, May 10, 2000 (calling drug abuse "key factor" in conduct of RUF), at news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7436840.stm. (last visited Feb. 14, 2003). Evidencing the abuse, various reports stated thousands of syringes lay outside the abandoned home of RUF leader Sankoh. Id.
[FN25]. See Schuler, supra note 3, at 1 (detailing account of rebel whose leader cut his arm and inserted cocaine direct into bloodstream). One rebel stated the cocaine "gave [him] the will to fight". Id. With the drug-induced "hot temper", rebels raided towns and shot anything that moved. Id."
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The Impact of Armed Conflict on Children, United Nations General Assembly, U.N. Doc. A/51/306.Add.1, 6 September 1996, p.6:
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A. Legal source/authority and evidence:
Roy S. Lee, The International Criminal Court: The Making of the Rome Statute, p.118:
Michael Cottier, "Article 8" in Otto Triffterer, ed, Commentary on the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (1999) para. 228 :
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