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“Children are our future and if we use them in battle, we are destroying the future. We must reclaim them, every one of them, one at a time.” quote by Kofi Annan — Download Open image

“Children are our future and if we use them in battle, we are destroying the future. We must reclaim them, every one of them, one at a time.”

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