{"id":100645,"date":"2013-08-16T13:17:10","date_gmt":"2013-08-16T07:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=100645"},"modified":"2013-08-20T02:20:58","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T20:50:58","slug":"child-jihadis-boys-and-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/child-jihadis-boys-and-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"Child Jihadis: Boys And Girls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the juvenile detention centre in Kandahar there are two sets of children. The first are riotous and loud, arrested for theft and other crimes of that sort. When you give them a piece of paper and ask them to write down the reason they are in prison they simply scratch lines into the paper or scrunch it up. They can\u2019t write. The second group are silent. But when they take the sheet of paper they begin to write the most beautiful script, their sentences full of fire and argument. 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