Inside the army’s quiet machinery of forced recruitment - Radio Tamazuj

Inside the army’s quiet machinery of forced recruitment - Radio Tamazuj

An unpublicized recruitment campaign by South Sudan’s security forces is sweeping up teenagers from the streets of the capital, Juba, and other towns, transporting them to remote military training sites, according to investigations carried out by Radio Tamazuj. Twenty-three boys and young men, most in their mid-teens, recently arrived in Lankien, Nyirol County of Jonglei State, after fleeing a secret military training camp in Upper Nile State. E…