Sectarian Violence Shows No Mercy to Iraqi Children

BAGHDAD, 1 March (IRIN) - The United Nations and NGOs have strongly condemned the continued apparent targeting of children in Iraq's bloody sectarian violence.

The latest mass killing of children occurred on Tuesday when, according to Iraqi state television, 18 boys were killed by a car bomb in the Sunni insurgent stronghold of Ramadi, capital of Anbar province and some 155 km west of Baghdad. The boys were getting ready to play football.

It was not immediately known if the children were the intended targets in the Ramadi bombings, but it would not be the first time that children were killed playing football in Iraq.

Last August, 12 boys and young men were blown apart on a football pitch in Baghdad.

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