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Wed 08 Aug 2001Doubling of paramilitary attacks on young - reportParamilitary attacks on children and juveniles in the North nearly doubled in the two years after the Belfast Agreement was signed, according to a report.The finding came in "They Shoot Children Don't They" by Dr Liam Kennedy, professor of modern history at Queen's University in Belfast.