I appreciate that question, and I think that gets us toward where we need to begin to focus our discussion, around what is a reintegration plan.
I would agree with you that there is not an exact parallel between this case and the case in Sierra Leone, but many of the other cases we deal with regarding child soldiers aren't exact parallels either. In some, young people have joined under pressure from families, which may be a closer parallel to this case. We do find those. In some cases they have even joined because they believed in a cause. But international law says we deal with all of them as if they were children. It's a violation to have recruited them and used them.
In terms of what the alternative is, that is where it would have to start with a very careful assessment, as I said. What is his personal health, psychological health, mental health? We need to look at education. He left school at a very early age. We face that with former child soldiers in other countries too, who come back as adults. They left school early. You can't put them back in the classroom. So we develop appropriate programs for them, often ones that involve income generation and education in other options. Other countries also deal with child soldiers who come back older and who have missed a whole portion of their development.
We need to find ways to rehabilitate and try to reintegrate them in some way and deal with them under the youth justice system appropriately. But that's what we should be focusing on.