Child Soldiers In Uganda
Introduction
The following paper will specifically address how children are being forced into serving as soldiers, what they do as soldiers, and how citizens are trying to put an end to it. The children of Uganda are being kidnapped from their families to become soldiers and sex slaves by the Lord’s Resistance Army. The paper will help to explain when, where, how, and why Joseph Kony is stealing children from their families in Uganda. It will also explore what the children do as they serve Kony and the Lord’s Resistance Army (Amone-P’Olak, 2014). It will go in depth on routines of the child soldiers and how they cope from day to day. This article will then address how the world is working together to stop Joseph Kony, with a video campaign …show more content…
The LRA was formed in 1987 after the defeat of a rebellion by the Holy Spirit Movement. Kony’s cousin, Alice Lakwena, led the Holy Spirit Movement. The LRA lacks political goals and wants to dominate in power (Haynes, 2007). Uganda is in a civil war and the LRA is gathering up children and turning them against their families and communities to unite with them. Kony is gathering up people to help him hold power. The child soldiers are defined as a person under the age of eighteen involved with warfare. The LRA’s soldiers rape young children and go after the other children for victims. A few of the victims described their abductors as scary, violent men, but others described theirs as nice and …show more content…
Children soldiers are on top of the list for suffering mentally, after being at war. About 25,000 children were stolen out of Northern Uganda and forced to join the Lord’s Resistance Army. The abducted children had to live in constant terror of being attacked or threatened daily. They were threatened with disease, such as HIV and AIDs. The soldiers did not use protection while using the girls as sex slaves. The young soldiers lived in fear of disease and death. Childhood trauma leads to psychological issues that follow a person around for a lifetime (Amone-P’Olak, 2014). If a child was allowed to have a gun, he or she would be more likely to traumatic bond and be more accepting to the situation he or she was stuck
The following paper will specifically address how children are being forced into serving as soldiers, what they do as soldiers, and how citizens are trying to put an end to it. The children of Uganda are being kidnapped from their families to become soldiers and sex slaves by the Lord’s Resistance Army. The paper will help to explain when, where, how, and why Joseph Kony is stealing children from their families in Uganda. It will also explore what the children do as they serve Kony and the Lord’s Resistance Army (Amone-P’Olak, 2014). It will go in depth on routines of the child soldiers and how they cope from day to day. This article will then address how the world is working together to stop Joseph Kony, with a video campaign …show more content…
The LRA was formed in 1987 after the defeat of a rebellion by the Holy Spirit Movement. Kony’s cousin, Alice Lakwena, led the Holy Spirit Movement. The LRA lacks political goals and wants to dominate in power (Haynes, 2007). Uganda is in a civil war and the LRA is gathering up children and turning them against their families and communities to unite with them. Kony is gathering up people to help him hold power. The child soldiers are defined as a person under the age of eighteen involved with warfare. The LRA’s soldiers rape young children and go after the other children for victims. A few of the victims described their abductors as scary, violent men, but others described theirs as nice and …show more content…
Children soldiers are on top of the list for suffering mentally, after being at war. About 25,000 children were stolen out of Northern Uganda and forced to join the Lord’s Resistance Army. The abducted children had to live in constant terror of being attacked or threatened daily. They were threatened with disease, such as HIV and AIDs. The soldiers did not use protection while using the girls as sex slaves. The young soldiers lived in fear of disease and death. Childhood trauma leads to psychological issues that follow a person around for a lifetime (Amone-P’Olak, 2014). If a child was allowed to have a gun, he or she would be more likely to traumatic bond and be more accepting to the situation he or she was stuck