Many look back and remember all the good times they had growing up. However‚ this isn’t always the case. For some kids growing up in times of war‚ they completely lose out on their precious childhood. Not everyone is familiar about the issue of child soldier and whether or not they should be prosecuted. In countries in the Middle East and Africa‚ such as Sierra Leone‚ governments and rebel groups are recruiting and using children in battles. Due to this‚ these children are exposed to shooting guns
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First and foremost‚ most child soldiers are taken against their will to fight in a conflict. In his BBC article‚ Child Soldiers Still Being Recruited in South Sudan‚ Tom Burridge (A BBC correspondent) wrote about the recruitment process for child soldiers in South Sudan’s ongoing civil war. During his visit to South Sudan‚ Tom met with a few boys who have been child soldiers‚ and one of them was a boy named Stephen. Rebels closed in on Stephen’s unsuspecting school while class was in session. “Stephen
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Child soldiers are victims‚ not perpetrators‚ so they should be granted amnesty. Though to some it may look like these kids are choosing this life‚ in reality‚ most aren’t. They either have to join those forces or die‚ which is terrifying for any child to imagine. Not only that‚ but they were drugged to kill‚ making them forget how bad it was that they were doing. And to some of them‚ that army was the only family that they have‚ providing better living conditions than those out on the streets. Which
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people don’t know the entire context of some children’s life‚ so this is why children should be given amnesty to fighting as child soldiers. One of the first big reasons children should not be prosecuted for fighting as child soldiers is their age. The average time for someone’s brain to fully develop is at the age of 25. This is way higher than the average age of child soldiers‚ which is 15-17 years old. This kind of age allows these poor‚ vulnerable kids to be manipulated in ways they don’t even understand
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There are approximately 300‚000 child soldiers actively fighting in wars and conflicts of all kinds. Imagine spending your entire youth stuck in an army of some kind‚ risking your life everyday. This is what child soldiers have to go through. The use of child soldiers increased dramatically over the past years and it is clearly a huge issue. These child soldiers go through a lot‚ and the few that survive go through even more afterwards. The question is‚ should they be prosecuted for their crimes
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In the history of war‚ child soldiers have always played a role in determining the outcome of the battle. These soldiers have lately stirred up a large portion of talk about whether they should be granted amnesty or not. Amnesty is a pardon of all crimes a person has committed‚ and considering what child soldiers have done; they should not receive that option. While people for amnesty may have excuses for all the problems they have caused‚ it does not deny that these children have caused many troubles
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The Child Soldier Reflection By : Gabriel Garlycia Ishmael Beah was a child soldier who got out of the military base with the help on unicef. Afterwards he stayed in America and wrote a book about his life as a child soldier when he was younger. He tells about how the child soldiers were treated and how he became a child soldier in the first place. Ishmael Beah grew up in a remarkable childhood until a war came to his part of his country and because of war the landscape he grew up in became
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male and female child soldiers ranging between the ages of 6 and18 that are illegally recruited to fight for approximately 30 conflicts around the world. Child soldiers are targets for state-run armies‚ paramilitaries and rebel groups because of there vulnerability‚ age and size. Once recruited and trained they are known to commit acts of murder‚ rape‚ mass killings and mutilation. There is a debate whether or not children should be prosecuted for their war crimes. Child Soldiers are perceived as
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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
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Child soldiers are a problem for kids under age the of 15 that who are forced into military service. This putting young kids lives into danger putting them into battle to fight.Also kids this young should not be taught this kind of violence. According to article 38 of the Convention of the Rights of a Child‚some governments should be “establishing a ban” (fact sheet) against forced military. This is still important today because there should not be any child under 18 going through this kind of
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