But in the past few months, fighting between the DRC army and Rwandan Hutu rebels and other militias has intensified, deepening the crisis for the country’s youth.
Aid agencies describe the present situation as "catastrophic", warning that child recruitment is on the rise.
Reporting from Goma in the eastern DRC, Mohammed Adow has found that the children are being put through terrifying ordeals; they are trained to kill almost as soon as they are recruited.
One tactic favoured by the militias is to force the child to kill a member of his own family.
Source: Aljazeera
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