aljazeera.com - 20 Sep 2012 - The Syrian ambassador to the United Nations has condemned a UN report that said his country's forces are guilty of committing violence against children caught up in the 18-month uprising. 

Ambassador Bashar Jaafari on Wednesday called the allegations made in the report hostile propaganda, and said armed groups were violating the rights of children, not the government.

"We would also have preferred for the Special Representative for the Secretary General to include in the paragraphs addressing the Syrian Arab Republic the acts that have been perpetrated by armed terrorist groups that have been sustained and financed by foreign parties," Jaafari said.

"These groups have destroyed more than 2,600 schools and kindergartens. They have also targeted health centers. 

"It is these armed groups who are violating the rights of Syria's children."

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