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To: goldworldnet who wrote (510747)	10/1/2012 4:39:15 PM
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Obama waives sanctions on countries that use child soldiers Posted By Josh Rogin Monday, October 1, 2012 - 5:48 PM U.S. President Barack Obama issued a new executive order last week to fight human trafficking, touting his administration's handling of the issue. "When a little boy is kidnapped, turned into a child soldier, forced to kill or be killed -- that's slavery," Obama said in a speech at the Clinton Global Initiative. "It is barbaric, and it is evil, and it has no place in a civilized world. Now, as a nation, we've long rejected such cruelty." But for the third year in a row, Obama has waived almost all U.S. sanctions that would punish certain countries that use child soldiers, upsetting many in the human rights community. Continues...