Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Myanmar's government has made progress in reducing the recruitment of children into the armed forces but still needs to stamp out the practice and discharge child soldiers, AP reported. A new report to the U.N. Security Council found that while complaints about recruitment of child soldiers in Myanmar declined to 32 cases in 2012 from 172 cases in 2009, the military continued to target unaccompanied children and orphans found in workplaces, streets, bus and train stations, ferry terminals, markets and their home villages. The report said that from April 1, 2009 to Jan. 31, 2013, the International Labor Organization received 802 complaints of underage recruitment into the military of which 770 cases were verified.
