Brought into fighting by his family and publicly lionised by police,then shot dead on his way to primary school in retribution for fitting an iconWasil Ahmad was on his way to primary school when the Taliban gunned him down this week, taking revenge for the 10 year-traditional’s role fighting in a government militia in southern Afghanistan.
His brief career and brutal death have highlighted both the country’s widespread problems with child soldiers and the escalating cruelty of its civil war.
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Source: theguardian.com