Child Soldiers and the Lra
Darbey
CGW4U
June 5, 2013
Cierra and Neal: Human Rights Violation
ARTICLE 5:
‘No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhumane, or degrading treatment or punishment.’
Currently within Uganda, the country is feeling the effects of the Lord’s Resistance Army. This army is an example of a breach of human rights. Within this army, children are violently abducted from their families and homes, and subjected to torture at times, as well as cruel, inhumane, and degrading treatment and punishment. Since children are easier to instill fear within, they are threatened with their own lives and forced to do things that adult soldiers may not be able to do. An example of this breach of human rights would be their initiation process; some are forced to kill their friends or family. If they choose to disobey their orders, they can be either tortured harshly, or killed. They are not the only victims within this breach though. Their family members, or other members of the community who have fallen victim to the children and adult soldiers of the LRA may find themselves being tortured. This treatment is unarguable cruel and degrading. An example a victim’s treatment would be the example from the video. The woman had her ears and parts of her face cut off even though she had not provoked an attack. Obviously being an inhumane, cruel, and degrading type of treatment, her human rights were breached. Politically, this human rights violation seems to be “under the radar” of the government. The leader feels that the LRA has become smaller, therefore less violent/powerful. This could cause the downfall of the government in the long run, due to lost faith from those victims being treated in such a cruel matter. Nothing can be solved on a larger scale if those in power do not believe the issue to be a problem. Socially, this violation leads to rejection within communities. Once child soldiers who have been forced into violating, as well as being violated, return,
CGW4U
June 5, 2013
Cierra and Neal: Human Rights Violation
ARTICLE 5:
‘No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhumane, or degrading treatment or punishment.’
Currently within Uganda, the country is feeling the effects of the Lord’s Resistance Army. This army is an example of a breach of human rights. Within this army, children are violently abducted from their families and homes, and subjected to torture at times, as well as cruel, inhumane, and degrading treatment and punishment. Since children are easier to instill fear within, they are threatened with their own lives and forced to do things that adult soldiers may not be able to do. An example of this breach of human rights would be their initiation process; some are forced to kill their friends or family. If they choose to disobey their orders, they can be either tortured harshly, or killed. They are not the only victims within this breach though. Their family members, or other members of the community who have fallen victim to the children and adult soldiers of the LRA may find themselves being tortured. This treatment is unarguable cruel and degrading. An example a victim’s treatment would be the example from the video. The woman had her ears and parts of her face cut off even though she had not provoked an attack. Obviously being an inhumane, cruel, and degrading type of treatment, her human rights were breached. Politically, this human rights violation seems to be “under the radar” of the government. The leader feels that the LRA has become smaller, therefore less violent/powerful. This could cause the downfall of the government in the long run, due to lost faith from those victims being treated in such a cruel matter. Nothing can be solved on a larger scale if those in power do not believe the issue to be a problem. Socially, this violation leads to rejection within communities. Once child soldiers who have been forced into violating, as well as being violated, return,