A child running through a minefield will not set off an anti-tank mine. Decent article until I read that.
November 1981, at the town of Bostan
- CNN: War in the Gulf, 1991
Probably not an anti-tank mine, but they were used to clear anti-personnel mines and to simply charge the Iraqi lines. They died by the tens of thousands.
Read this article from The New Republic It is chilling and it totally reinforces what this article is saying about the Islamic mindset and the total ruthlessness of the religious fanatics who run Iran.
During the Iran-Iraq War, the Ayatollah Khomeini imported 500,000 small plastic keys from Taiwan. The trinkets were meant to be inspirational. After Iraq invaded in September 1980, it had quickly become clear that Iran's forces were no match for Saddam Hussein's professional, well-armed military. To compensate for their disadvantage, Khomeini sent Iranian children, some as young as twelve years old, to the front lines. There, they marched in formation across minefields toward the enemy, clearing a path with their bodies. Before every mission, one of the Taiwanese keys would be hung around each child's neck. It was supposed to open the gates to paradise for them.