JUDY WOODRUFF, CNN ANCHOR: For children in hotspots around the world, land mines are but one hazard. CNN's Catherine Bond reports on these children of war.</s>CATHERINE BOND, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): In Angola, schoolchildren file along a path in a minefield to a lesson that could save them their limbs, even their lives. The United Nations children's fund, UNICEF, says Angolan children are more at risk of dying than children anywhere else in the world. Mines have killed and maimed some 90,000 Angolan adults and children. Children also risk abandonment, malnutrition, and disease. Chechen children in a camp in Ingushetia, their toys and drawings graphically illustrating what they witnessed of Russia's campaigns to crush Chechnya's rebellions, from psychological to physical damage as well. In this hospital ward, victims of amputations, carried out as a terror tactic by rebels in Sierra Leone. Her right arm cut off, this little girl braids her doll's hair -- child victims and child combatants. Two months ago, officers in south Sudan's rebel army resolved to keep children out of the military and put them in school instead, though previous attempts to do this sometimes backfired. "This isn't the first time I've been persuaded to go to school, " says Santino. "In 1996, me and some other boys were sent to school, but we decided to go back to the rebel army, because at least there, we had food and somewhere to sleep. " It's not just rebel armies, but governments, too, which allow children to join militias, like this one of local Kamajor fighters in Sierra Leone. In Columbia, a Children's Peace Movement tries to combat the effects of violence in a society, where UNICEF says about 6,000 children are involved with armed groups. Like this rebel, lying injured, as fighting continues. "How old are you?" someone asks. "Fourteen," he says. Catherine Bond, CNN, Nairobi.
Children in Danger in Hotspots Around the World