Editing Children in the military (section)

====Sudan====
[[File:SPLA Child Soldier.jpg|thumb|left|A child soldier of the Sudanese People's Liberation Army (2007)]]In 2004 approximately 17,000 children were being used by the state armed forces and non-state armed groups.<ref name="Hollingsworth-2013">{{Cite book|title=The social problems of children in Sub-Saharan Africa|last=Hollingsworth|first=J|publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing|year=2013|isbn=9781443845137|location=Newcastle upon Tyne, UK|pages=68|oclc=825978109}}</ref> As many as 5,000 children were part of the main armed opposition group at the time, the [[Sudan People's Liberation Army]] (SPLA).<ref name="Hollingsworth-2013" /> Some former child soldiers were sentenced to death for crimes committed while they were soldiers.<ref name="CSUCS-1" />

In 2006, children were also recruited from refugee camps in Chad, and thousands were used in the conflict in Darfur.<ref name="Child Soldiers-2008">{{Cite web|url=https://www.child-soldiers.org/Shop/global-report-2008-1|title=Child Soldiers Global Report 2008: Sudan|author=Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers|year=2008|website=Child Soldiers International|pages=315–320|language=en|access-date=1 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180402035955/https://www.child-soldiers.org/Shop/global-report-2008-1|archive-date=2 April 2018|url-status=usurped}}</ref> In 2005 the government ratified the OPAC treaty and by 2008 the military use of children had reduced in the country, but both state armed forces and the SPLA continued to recruit and use them.<ref name="Child Soldiers-2008" /> The use of children has continued to diminish, but in 2017 the UN was still receiving reports of children as young as 12 in government forces.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://childsoldiersworldindex.org/view/SD|title=Child Soldiers World Index: Sudan|last=Child Soldiers International|year=2018|website=childsoldiersworldindex.org|language=en|access-date=1 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180402101439/https://childsoldiersworldindex.org/view/SD|archive-date=2 April 2018|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="urlWitness">{{cite web |url=https://www.hrw.org/news/2015/09/09/witness-child-soldiers-darfur-confession-i-shot-her-she-dead |title=Witness: A Child Soldier's Darfur Confession – 'I shot her. She is dead.' &#124; Human Rights Watch |date=9 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160817133035/https://www.hrw.org/news/2015/09/09/witness-child-soldiers-darfur-confession-i-shot-her-she-dead |archive-date=17 August 2016 |url-status=live  }}</ref>