The specific targeting of children is one of the grimmest new - TopicsExpress



          

The specific targeting of children is one of the grimmest new developments in the way conflicts have been waged over the past fifty years. In the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries, roughly half of all deaths in conflict zones were civilian, according to the U.N. During the Second World War, civilians accounted for two-thirds of the fatalities. By the twentieth century’s end, almost ninety per cent were civilian. ~ newyorker/online/blogs/newsdesk/2014/07/the-new-way-of-war-killing-the-kids.html#entry-more
Posted on: Mon, 07 Jul 2014 04:27:14 +0000

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