couple of pills. You do what you were told and take the pills. The next thing you know...you just shot‚ and killed‚ the rest of your family. This is the life of a child soldier. History shows us that the issue with children soldiers is not new. Since the 1980’s‚ Liberia‚ Uganda‚ and Renamo Forces have had over 13‚900 children soldiers. All over the world today‚ there are still‚ approximately
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or lined up with guns with a commander shouting at them what they need to learn. These objects are what we base on whether or not child soldiers should be given amnesty. First and foremost‚ the consideration of whether or not to help children is the issue. Many of them suffer from drug addiction and are basically brainwashed. To help the mass amount of child soldiers‚ we should give them amnesty. But we can’t just let them loose into the world because they can all still be dangerous. As the Armed
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“In the last ten years‚ two million child soldiers have been killed‚ more than one million orphaned‚ more than six million left injured or permanently disabled‚ and more than 10 million diagnosed with psychological trauma” (Invisible Children). But that is only the beginning of this problem and it could get worse. Many young children find themselves in the army for various reasons. They commit many acts that are deemed as crimes. Some people think that they should be pardoned and some think otherwise
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according to human right watch. Child soldier refers to any person under the age of 18 placed in the face of war. This issue discusses the rights of children and how they shouldn’t be involved in death‚ murder or fighting‚ but instead‚ experience the innocence of being a child. Children are abducted from their homes and schools are forced to work as spies‚ cooks or guards. Girls are subjected to rape and sexual assault and given as wives to commanders. Children Soldiers obstruct the articles 5 the right
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A child named Akbar‚ only 16 years of age‚ is one of the few escapees from a war-stricken country. How do you think he was able to flee? Do you think sheer luck saved him by evading bullets from hundreds of guns? Or did he brutally slaughter every soldier he saw? Not everyone knows about these child soldiers. In general‚ for some parts of the world‚ there are kids holding guns and killing adults. For people like the family of Sgt. Christopher Speer‚ the idea of child soldiers are of the utmost
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Unicef isn’t helping child soldiers get rescued from countries as much as they should. Child soldiers need more attention‚ they are too young to fight in war. The news is not covering much about child soldiers and they are completely neglecting that there are also girls that are serving at child soldiers but the news doesn’t show that. Instead of using all the money on helping child soldiers they should add schools to the places so that they won’t need to go in the war because many children join
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Child soldiers should not be held accountable for war crimes. They do not choose to fight or kill. There are 200‚000 child soldiers worldwide that are being forced to fight against their will. Although they did not choose to fight‚ some people think they need to be held accountable.” These children knew exactly what they were doing and should not be excused from their actions…” Once their trust is earned‚ child soldiers can be easily manipulated. “Child soldiers are ideal‚” a military commander
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Multi Genre Project Child Soldiers By: Ralia Lahlou Ms. Gugel March 2nd‚ 2012 The Beginning of the Change From the first day‚ something about these innocent eyes filled with hatred inspired me to write. These eyes are those of a child soldier. Before starting this project‚ I did not think much of children fighting in wars‚ but as the research got deeper and my understanding of their situation more thorough‚ this project became much more than a simple task I had to accomplish. I felt close
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Child Soldiers Throughout history‚ many wars have promoted the problem of child soldiers. Many researchers and government officials have looked deeper into the issue whether or not child soldiers should be treated as victims or criminals. This problem has raised many questions on how child soldiers should be treated. Though this issue is not black and white‚ with many cases of child soldiers‚ these children should be treated as victims. Many children have been subjected to war broken homes and
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1. Child soldiers are any children under the age of 18 who are recruited by a state or non-state armed group and used as fighters‚ cooks‚ suicide bombers‚ human shields‚ messengers‚ spies‚ or for sexual purposes. 2. In the last 13 years‚ the use of child soldiers has spread to almost every region of the world and every armed conflict. Though an exact number is impossible to define‚ thousands of child soldiers are illegally serving in armed conflict around the world. 3. Some children are under
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