The Maat Foundation for Peace, Development and Human Rights expresses its concern over the increasing number of reports that the governments of # Qatar and # Turkey have recruited hundreds of Somali youths to participate in the ongoing war in Libya #, who numbered about 2,000 Somali youth, including children.

Maat Foundation warns that this undermines all peace proposals # that all international parties are calling for, and the governments of the two aforementioned countries are not bound by them. Stressing that the continuation of sending # mercenaries from # Somalia and # Syria aims only to achieve political interests and purposes that are inconsistent with all claims to peace, and violate all human rights and # international humanitarian law.

The Foundation affirms that this is inconsistent with the "International Convention against the Recruitment, Use, Financing and Training of Mercenaries", which states in its Article Five - Clause 2 that "States parties shall not recruit mercenaries, use them, finance them or train them for the purpose of resisting the legitimate practice of the inalienable right of peoples In #Fate ”.

The Foundation calls for activating the third item of the same article. Which states that "States Parties shall punish the crimes stipulated in this Convention # with appropriate penalties that take into account the grave nature of these crimes."

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