Serious issue here ... If I'm reading this right ... the use of children soldiers in civil war:
"Children are sometimes forced to commit terrible crimes, a 13-year-old boy tells that he was forced to cut the fetus out of the stomach of a pregnant woman with his bayonet. Another child was forced to drown people in latrines. Still another was forced to cut off the hands of a prisoner, because he had lost the keys to the handcuffs."
... Your stark use of a few words illuminates a dark most don't want to see.