Tillerson Accused Of Violating Child Soldiers Law

About a dozen State Department officials are accusing Secretary of State Rex Tillerson of violating a law to stop recruitment of child soldiers.  The federal law is designed to keep foreign militaries from enlisting child soldiers.  Reuters reports officials wrote a confidential State Department dissent memo.  It said Tillerson violated the Child Soldiers Prevention Act in June when he excluded Afghanistan, Iraq, and Myanmar from a list of nations that use child soldiers.  

The memo says Tillerson made the move despite the department publicly acknowledging the three countries draft children to serve as soldiers.

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