Children suffer in Nepal Maoist uprising

Children's rights activists in Nepal say children have been particularly badly affected by the long-running Maoist insurgency there.

They say more than a-hundred children have been killed, fifteen-hundred orphaned and thousands displaced during the six-year uprising.

A spokesman for the children¿s' rights group, Child Workers in Nepal, Gauri Pradhan said children had been used by the Maoists as fighters, but they had also suffered at the hands of the security forces on suspicion of collaborating with the rebels.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service