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A senior United Nations official who has just finished a visit to Iraq has condemned militias and insurgent groups for making increasing use of children, some as young as ten, in political violence. The official Radhika Coomaraswamy said that some of the child recruits were paid to plant bombs; others were used as decoys by suicide bombers and often died in the attacks. Ms Coomaraswamy also expressed concerns about how few children were attending primary school. The number of children going to schools has dropped from 80% in 2005 in primary school to 50% now. And so we feel that there must be an urgent message put out by the religious leaders and community leaders and families: keep your children out of the violence and send them back to school.