Orphanages, Schools and Children: Who is accountable when Children die in Combat situations?

There has been much concern about the bombing of what is claimed to be an orphanage ('Sencholai') by the Sri Lankan Air Force and protests have been made by the SLMM (Sri Lankan Monitoring Mission) of Norway and the UNICEF.

On one hand children should be protected by any form of violence of war, while on the other hand it should be the responsibility of the United Nations, specifically the UNICEF to prevent recruitment and address that issue. Although they should be sorry about the death of 'children' if there were any there, their highest responsibility should have been to condemn outright the recruitment of Children in combat, which we have not seen so far. Is this the policy of the UNICEF Mission in Sri Lanka who have been hijacked by terrorists for a long time from the time the UNICEF gave 1.44 Million US$ to open the transit centres for so called demobilization of these children in 2003.

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