Soldiers `using child prostitutes'

Hamburg - Under-age girls are working as prostitutes in brothels in Macedonia regularly visited by German soldiers of the international…

Hamburg - Under-age girls are working as prostitutes in brothels in Macedonia regularly visited by German soldiers of the international peacekeeping force in neighbouring Kosovo (Kfor), German television reported yesterday.

In a report by ARD television a 16-year-old Bulgarian girl sold to a brothel in Tetovo, near Macedonia's northern border with Kosovo, said that hundreds of German soldiers had been among her clients.

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