Killer Kids #1

Samboo, a 12-year-old soldier in the Karen rebel army fighting against Myanmar's military, poses with his rifle in a jungle camp on the border with Thailand in this January 31, 2000 file photo. The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) on October 30 called for the demobilisation of 70,000 child soldiers, some as young as seven, fighting in armies across East Asia.

A 70,000 strong militia of pre-pubescent kids? Not since the Children's Crusade of 1212 has the world seen this many kiddies picking up arms to KILL. Samboo is a little kid from Thailand, but there are child armies operating all over the world. In the following Asian and Middle Eastern countries, Burma, Laos, Iran, Iraq, Nepal, the Phillipines and Sri Lanka, children are forcibly recruited by insurgent rebel armies, usually radical guerillas hiding up in the mountains and jungles. These adult rebel leaders use children as literal human shields, for propaganda purposes, or simply to boost their numbers. Yikes.

Sri Lankan children recruited to the Tamil Tigers.

More than four-hundred fifty children were reportedly forced to join the Tamil Tigers during 2006, bringing the total number of child soldiers in their ranks to more than one-thousand. During the same period, a breakaway faction of the Tamil Tigers lead by Karuna Amman is believed to have forcibly recruited more than two-hundred children.