Aren't you grateful you're in Singapore?
Hundreds of youngsters -- some as young as 10 -- are in the
gangs, according to the charity Indigo, which has helped about 40
former members reintegrate into society. Hated as much as they are
feared, the gangs sprang up in poor areas of Abidjan's densely
populated Abobo suburb during the decade of civil unrest in Ivory
Coast between 2002 and 2011 that split the country in two. The
rising violence led to the appearance of child soldiers, who became
the first "microbes", or "germs". Public anger against their
marauding has sometimes boiled over. After mobs of residents
lynched a number of gang members, a microbe leader was tortured,
beheaded and burnt in 2015.
https://sg.yahoo.com/news/inside-brutal-world-ivory-coasts-microbe-child-gangs-031813370.html
