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联合国儿童基金会高度关注索马里儿童安危 10月武装冲突升级　酿成24死58重伤

2011-11-15

奈洛比，肯尼亚／香港，2011年11月15日——索马里武装冲突不断升级，联合国儿童基金会（UNICEF）对此表示高度关注，尤其是武装冲突对儿童安危的影响。

「在索马里南部和中部地区，愈来愈多儿童和市民在暴力袭击和驳火中被掳走。」UNICEF驻索马里办事处代表Sikander Khan先生直言：「儿童的伤亡数字在过去数周不断飙升，情况令人非常忧虑。」

On 30 July, Falso Mohammed Mohammed looks at an X-ray image of her daughter, Fara, in an outpatient clinic on the grounds of the African Union Mission for Somalia (AMISOM) base in Mogadishu, the capital. Fara was shot, and the bullet remains in her stomach (and is visible on the X-ray).

根据联合国武装冲突严重侵犯儿童监察及报告机制资料，10月份因当地武装冲突事件不幸丧生的儿童，较今年月均数字倍增至24名；同月更有58名儿童确认为重伤，是索马里本年录得单月儿童重伤数字最高的一次。监察及报告机制已证实由年初至今一共有近300名儿童在索马里的持续武装冲突中受重伤，另造成超过100名儿童死亡。

Khan先生坦言：「相对我们确认到的死伤数目，事实上可能有更多儿童被杀或受伤害，只是未有通报或获得证实。」

此外，儿童被武装部队征召入伍和妇孺遭受性暴力对待的问题亦备受关注。监察及报告机制已证实逾600名儿童被招揽作童兵；逾200名儿童被强姦，当中大部分为女童。

Khan先生续指：「武装部队步步进逼，暴力冲突持续加剧，令索马里儿童的生命面临更大威胁。本会依照国际法律，积极唿吁各界制止索马里的武装冲突，以免更多儿童遭到杀害及残害、被招募及利用当兵，或遭受强姦。我们必须立即采取行动，确保儿童在暴力事件中，能安全並受到保护。」

On 11 January, Transitional Federal Government (TFG) soldiers patrol the streets of Mogadishu, the capital. A boy (right foreground) accompanies them. Following several days of fighting the city is relatively peaceful although there is sporadic gunfire. By 11 January 2007 in Somalia, renewed conflict has deepened the crisis for children and women who are already suffering from successive droughts and flooding in the last two years, as well as from resurgent wars that began in 1991. Children are being recruited and forced to fight by all parties to the conflict and increased numbers of people are being displaced. Together with the psychological trauma of war for children, they are also now at even greater risk of disease while access by humanitarian agencies to the vulnerable is more difficult. Children and women are being killed and wounded in the violence, some children have been separated from their families and school attendance has plummeted. Over two million Somalis, or one-quarter of the population, have already been affected by the 2005-2006 drought and subsequent flooding. The country has little infrastructure and fewer than 20 per cent of school-age children attend primary school. Maternal mortality is among the highest in the world and the under-five mortality rate is 156/1000.

On 27 July, Asad [NAME CHANGED] (left) holds a gun in a reception centre for former soldiers from the rebel Al-Shabaab group, in Mogadishu, the capital. About 15 days ago, I was on my way back from school when some men with long beards approached me and told me that they wanted to give me some money, he said. They handed me 40 US dollars... They said if I went with them that I could keep the money they had given me. So I went with them to a camp that was near to Mogadishu. There were many men in this camp and lots of other children around my age. I was given a place to sleep and we were given lessons in things like guns and weapons... They were nice to us, these people. They never shouted at us and only wanted us to be good at shooting... A few days ago we were told that we were leaving the camp for the front line in Mogadishu. We walked to a group of houses where we waited. Then very early yesterday morning there was a big attack... There was a lot of shooting and firing and shouting& I fired all of my bullets and then realized that all of our colleagues in buildings around us had gone& So we decided to surrender. We walked out of where we were with our arms and guns above our heads. The AU [African Union] soldiers treated us very well and didn't fire at us. I was scared they might. The soldiers told us to put the weapons down and then gave us some food and water. They were kind to us& I hope that I can go home. Al-Shabaab forces control much of southern and central Somalia. AMISOM was established by the United Nations to support peace, stability and the safe delivery of humanitarian aid in the country. UNICEF works on all sides of the long-running conflict. By 29 July 2011, the crisis in the Horn of Africa affecting primarily Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia and Djibouti continues, with a worsening drought, rising food prices and an ongoing conflict in Somalia. More than 12 million people are threatened by the regions worst drought in 60 years. Some 500,000 severely malnourished children in drought-affected areas are at imminent risk of dying, while a further 1.6 million moderately malnourished children and the wider-affected population are at high risk of disease. Somalia faces one of the worlds most severe food security crises; and as many as 100,000 displaced people have sought security and assistance in Mogadishu, the still-embattled capital, in the last two months, and tens of thousands are fleeing into Kenya and Ethiopia. Famine has been declared in the Lower Shabelle and Bakool areas, and it is believed all of Southern Somalia could fall into a state of famine without immediate intervention. Across Southern Somalia, 1.25 million children are in urgent need of life-saving assistance, and 640,000 are acutely malnourished. UNICEF has delivered supplementary feeding supplies for 65,000 children and therapeutic food for 16,000 severely malnourished children in Southern Somalia, and is working with UN, NGO and community partners to expand blanket supplementary feeding programmes where needed. UNICEF is also supporting a range of other interventions, including an immunization campaign targeting 40,000 children in Mogadishu. A joint United Nations appeal for humanitarian assistance for the region requires US$2.5 billion, less than half of which has been committed.

武装冲突升级，亦阻碍了人道救援物资的运送。「在饥荒和疾病的双重打击下，成千上万的儿童命悬一綫。在这生死存亡的关头，儿童竟面临救援物资中断。」Khan先生唿吁：「现时当地妇女及儿童正处于水深火热之中，我们不能视而不见，眼白白让数以千计的儿童逐一死去。所以我恳请各界施予援手，支持我们迅速进行全面的拯救行动。」

关于联合国监察及报告机制联合国自2005年底，已密切监察索马里任何严重违反儿童权利的情况。行动是根据联合国安全理事会在2005年通过的第1612号决议、在2009年通过的第1882号决议和在2011年通过的第1998号决议下进行。机制多年来收集了儿童在武装冲突中严重侵犯儿童的情况，包括：杀害或残害儿童、招募或利用儿童当兵、强姦或其他严重性虐待儿童的行为、拐骗儿童、袭击学校或医院及不准外界向儿童提供人道主义援助。