Rights group slams India, Maoist rebels over child soldiers

From AFP

NEW DELHI — Human Rights Watch on Friday demanded the Indian government and Maoist rebels stop using child fighters in their escalating battle in the country’s eastern jungles.

The US-based group called on the Indian government "to develop a scheme to identify, demobilise and rehabilitate" children caught up in the insurgency, centred in Chhattisgarh state.