Always lacking productive activities of any kind, where the surplus of children may give vent, it’s war to absorb the product in excess.
A report of the United Nations says minors engaged in armed conflicts (child soldiers) in the last few years are hundreds of thousands. The countries involved were, from time to time, Sierra Leone, Tagikistan, Liberia, Cambodia, Sudan, Kossovo, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan.
The military use of minors goes from a direct partecipation in war actions to an indirect use as cooks, messengers, to defuse mines, spies and suicide terrorists.
With regard to the latter, the use of children as support of the whole family, reaches its apex with the phenomenon of Palestinian kamikazes.
Apart from a depressive component, we have already told about in the chapter ” Le Mal de Vivre “, the suicide terrorist assures his family a long period’s survival.
For every” action”[1] Saddam Hussein’s regime is used to pay the family’s martyr something like 17 thousand euros while 15 thousand more are given by Hamass, the terrorist organization.
” We have finished to pay all these works after my brother’s action “ – a kamikaze’s relative says, while showing his recently renovated house and asserts it was just his martyr brother to provide the bank account details of the family and this way to get the large money remittances from the Islamic movement. According to Koran, Allah forgives the shahid [2] everything but debts and therefore it’s logical for the family to get enough money to pay off debts that, however, would count on the opportunity the shahid has to be awarded with the Paradise and the so longed vergins. In the specific Palestinian [3] economic-political situation the child product may be a source of income as a suicide terrorist and the photo showing a two-year-old Palestinian child dressed as a kamikaze [4] assumes the value of a symbolic confirmation for our thesis [5].
The child product may be set even when it’s faulty: in 1997, the Sunday Telegraph, a British weekly, reported the piece of news that, in the sixties, children suffering from Down syndrome had been used as cavies, unknown to their parents, to test vaccines against varicella. The fact that ” cavies “, since carriers of serious handicaps like trisomy 21, were constantly tested, let doctors, who did experiments, verify, gradually, the effects of vaccines.
[1] Suicide attacks are defined like that by the Palestinians themselves.
[2] Martyr (suicide terrorist)
[3] Inside the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem poverty, drug traffic, crime, abandonment are prevalent: this is the conclusion of an inquiry carried out by an Israelite research centre. As for experts the situation is like ” a volcano about to explode”. A gloomy scene, made worse by a population density among the highest in the world. In one square kilometre area 32 thousand people live, some of them in packed houses, often without a shower. The houses in the Muslim zone are hardly 40 square metres large, while the ones in the rebuilt Hebrew quarter may be even 75. In three of the four quarters which make up the Old City, the Muslim, Christian and Hebrew ones – the fourth is Armenian – political and social tensions add to economic difficulties. In the Islamic section “there is the highest concentration of poor people” and this implies phenomenons of violence, crime and a great use of drugs. Education level is very low: more than 60% of the inhabitants in the Muslim quarter have an elementary education and even an inferior one. In the Christian quarter the percentage decreases to 50% and in the Hebrew one to less than 30%. The minority Christian population is progressively decreasing and this makes the infiltration of the Muslim easier (Corriere della Sera 13th July 2002).
[4] FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT IN JERUSALEM – The photo is appalling. It shows a Palestinian child of two years of age dressed as a kamikaze. A false explosive belt around his waist, two cartridge belts full of bullets falling from his shoulders, a red bandana of militants around his head. The child has two eyes wide open, he looks like a big doll. The Israelite army has said they found the photo at a wanted extremist’s house in Hebron. The Palestinians, abviously, said it was false. But the child’s family,which was found out by the English tv Sky News,confirmed the authenticity by stating that ” it was just a game “. (Guido Olimpo: Corriere della Sera 29th June 2002)
[5] The symbolic interpretation of reality may assume a value greater than any thesis supported by words, since words can limit reality by defining it.
See also:
1) Pyramid Builders (Child Labour First Part)
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3) Production Rejects (Child Labour Third Part)
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