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“You’ll Learn Not To Cry”:
Child Combatants in Colombia

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  1. SUMMARY
  2. RECOMMENDATIONS
  3. CHILD COMBATANTS IN COLOMBIA
  4. RECRUITMENT: RULES AND PRACTICE
  5. JOINING UP
  6. LIFE IN THE RANKS
  7. GIRLS
  8. TRAINING
  9. DISCIPLINE AND PUNISHMENT
  10. COMBAT
  11. PARTICIPATION IN SUMMARY EXECUTIONS AND TORTURE
  12. KIDNAPPINGS

  13. THE GOVERNMENT FORCES

  14. DESERTION, CAPTURE, AND AFTER
  15. RESCUED FROM WAR: GOVERNMENT REHABILITATION PROGRAMS FOR CHILD COMBATANTS
  16. LEGAL STANDARDS
  17. APPENDIX: Log of Human Rights Watch Interviews of Former Child Combatants

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September 2003       ISBN 1564322882