{"id":58843,"date":"2017-04-12T08:00:34","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T12:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=58843"},"modified":"2017-04-12T05:41:04","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T09:41:04","slug":"sky-news-boko-haram-using-drugged-child-suicide-bombers-unicef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=58843","title":{"rendered":"(Sky News) Boko Haram using drugged child suicide bombers &#8211; UNICEF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islamist group Boko Haram is increasingly forcing children to carry out suicide bombings &#8211; often drugging them before missions, according to UNICEF.<\/p>\n<p>At least 117 suicide attacks have been carried out by young people in the Lake Chad basin region since 2014, with nearly 80% of the bombs strapped to girls, a new report says.<\/p>\n<p>UNICEF&#8217;s Marie-Pierre Poirier said the mere sight of children at checkpoints and markets was sparking fear &#8211; meaning almost 1,500 children were detained last year across Nigeria, Cameron, Niger and Chad.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Poirier said: &#8220;These children are victims, not perpetrators. Forcing or deceiving them into committing such horrific acts is reprehensible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/boko-haram-using-drugged-child-suicide-bombers-unicef-10834185\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamist group Boko Haram is increasingly forcing children to carry out suicide bombings &#8211; often drugging them before missions, according to UNICEF. At least 117 suicide attacks have been carried out by young people in the Lake Chad basin region<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=58843\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[548,551,538,554,110,148,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cameroon","category-chad","category-niger","category-nigeria-africa","category-teens-youth","category-terrorism","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58843"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58845,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58843\/revisions\/58845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}