Why Child Soldiers Need To Be Saved

Child Soldiers Need To Be Saved

Imagine being being taken away from your family and everything you have ever known to become a soldier. You see people get killed everyday people force you to take drugs to make your performance better you are treated like an animal and you are forced to fight. Oh yeah and you are a child maybe as young as 11 years old. Child soldiers are the victims and this needs to stop! My first reason this selfish horrible crime should stop is that the children are sometimes forcibly recruited. Debatewise.com says that “Most children are forcibly recruited and even when they enlist they may not have thought carefully about their decision or made an informed choice”. ("Child Soldiers, Prosecution").
That being said
My first piece of evidence is there still is violence after they got to the hospital. Ishmael retells his story when he does he mentions that “The rebel boys drew out the few bayonets they had in their shorts and rushed toward us. It was war all over again. Perhaps the naïve men who had taken us to the center thought that removing us from the war would lessen our hatred for the R.U.F..” (Beah)This Proves that being a child soldier does really change you. My second reason is that they still are addicted to drugs. Ishmael said that “I craved cocaine and marijuana so badly that I would roll a plain sheet of paper and smoke it. Sometimes I searched the pockets of my army shorts, which I still wore, for crumbs of marijuana or cocaine. We broke into the mini hospital and stole some painkillers — white tablets and off-white — and red and yellow capsules. We emptied the capsules, ground the tablets and mixed them together. But the mixture didn’t give us the effect we wanted.” (Beah)That being said people do really get addicted to drugs and it will always leave a permanent scar on you. It could very well affect your future. Drugs are hurtful to anyone anywhere and it is very hard to fix. These poor children are exposed to it at such a young age that it’s hard to imagine there life without drugs after. From the time they are child soldiers from the time they are not anymore feels like a lifetime. My final piece of evidence is the kids have trust issues why after the damage has already been done. Ismael also said in the article that “After that, whenever Esther would see me around, she’d smile and ask me how I was doing. At first I detested her intrusions.” (Beah)Which he is clearly showing trust issues. If a normal child that has been raised fair and well has trust issues imagine what a kid going through the pain and suffering these kids are going through. Of