A high-ranking military officer serving with the South Sudan People’s Defence Forces, SSPDF explains what happens to children who are forcibly recruited to serve as soldiers, as his audience, consisting of 45 of his uniformed senior peers, listens attentively. Two of them are women.

Thousands of South Sudanese children are growing up in United Nations protection sites around the country after their parents sought sanctuary from the violent civil war that erupted more than five years ago.

Near Verbatim Transcript of Media Briefing by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan, Mr. David Shearer