In 21st century North America, there is a strange, seemingly-unanimous idea that, to fit the norm, one must be white, Christian and male. While, over the course of the latter 20th century and in the past decade, this has changed, the norm is very much still Christian and male; African-Americans now fit into the “All-American” stereotype, for the most part. However, there are, of course, outliers – deviants from the standard norm; these outliers make one wonder what the norm truly is, why it is so
Conflict Minerals, Rebels, and Child Soldiers in the Congo - Vice Documentary Directions: Watch the Vice Documentary here or here. Answer ALL of the following questions. Skip a line between each question. Submit a copy of your responses to the Schoology Dropbox by Sunday 2/28. Documentary Questions: Give a general overview of the documentary. The Congo has become a source of foreign interference as many western companies buy minerals from the country such as coltan, cassiterite, gold
We have many global problems, but we are lacking global institutions powerful enough to effectively address such problems as global terrorism, human rights abuses, global warming, the ozone layer, pollution of the oceans and rivers, arms trade, child soldiers, war, the weaponization of space, and nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction. Finding a way to participate in solving these and other global problems is one of the great challenges of our time. Global problems require global solutions
Are child soldiers the ones to blame for all those massacres? Do they deserve being charged for being forced to murder? Or do we grant them protection? Over the past 10 years more than one million child soldiers have been massacred in hostility, over 6 million were wounded, and 10 million of them were left with severe brain trauma. All of this because these children are forced into becoming something they have never wanted to be apart of. There are many children as young as 7 that are recruited as
individuals. In fact, child soldiers/suicide bombers are almost the exact opposite. A child soldier is defined as “anyone under the age of 18 who is part of any kind of regular or irregular armed force or armed group in any capacity” (Human Rights). They are put through hardship in which they do not deserve. Kids should not have these images in their head this young. They should not have to go through this abuse either. Children are abused and mistreated all around the world, and child soldiers/suicide bombers
Resistance Army has been at war with the government of Uganda, causing a civil war. The Army's Rebel Groups, have attacked small villages, resulting in thousands of innocent deaths, and the abduction of children to fight with the rebels. In order to maintain these organizations, the Rebel Groups are faced with the difficult task of recruiting individuals. With limited available resources, the Rebel Groups cannot offer any appealing incentives to their recruits, but require complete loyalty (Vermeij
Capturing children and turning them into child soldiers is an increasing epidemic in Sierra Leone. Ishmael Beah, author of the memoir A Long Way Gone, speaks of his time as a child soldier. Beah was born in Sierra Leone and at only thirteen years old he was captured by the national army and turned into a “vicious soldier.” (Beah, Bio Ref Bank) During the time of Beah’s childhood, a civil war had erupted between a rebel group known as the Revolutionary United Front and the corrupt Sierra Leone government
Ishmael Beah’s memoir, A Long Way Gone, narrates the story of Ishmael’s life as a child soldier in the Sierra Leonean civil war. Ishmael chronicles his journey from a scared, adrift child who lost his family in the war to a brutal child soldier who mercilessly killed many individuals to a guilt stricken rehabilitated teen who slowly learns to overcome his remorse from his past actions. Ishmael’s life as a child soldier first started when the Sierra Leonean army took him and his friends with them to
Child Soldiers have commited horrible crimes under the fear of death from their own groups. Child soldiers and their prosecution is a big debate going on right now. Should they be prosecuted you tell me? In my opinion child soldiers should not be prosecuted as criminals will not stop if they arrested and the children didn’t have control over their actions. Child soldiers shouldn’t be prosecuted People like the UN are only going to politely tell them to stop what they're doing. No force is being
showed the devastated lives those who worked on the mining rivers live. However upon further investigation into the issue of diamond workers in Sierra Leone there emerged the true source of the situation, a violent conflict between the government and rebel leaders. Due to this conflict the entire country was thrown on a downward spiral. This downward spiral eventually resulted in the people longing for the conflict to stop and for the country to come together as one again. The people of Sierra Leone
eighteen are participating in armed conflicts worldwide. The life of a child soldier is filled with terror, violence, horrible living conditions, lack of proper sanitization and poor nutrition. Children are forced by commanders through false promises and manipulation, to kill innocent civilians, other children and even their own families. “Shooting became just like drinking a glass of water” said Ishmael Beah, an ex-child-soldier, “children who refused to fight, kill or showed any weakness were ruthlessly
enslaved by the rebel Revolutionary United Front (R.U.F). A majority of the people that are enslaved are children including what are called demobilized child soldiers. Demobilized child soldiers are child soldiers that no longer are in the rebel army but have to stay at camps where all of the "retired" child soldiers have to go until the Revolutionary United Front decide to either kill them or find use for them by making them rejoin their ranks. The rebel army uses the child soldiers to help imprison
people. People call these children associated with armed forces as child soldiers. Child soldier is “any person below 18 years of age who is, or who has been, recruited or used by an armed force or armed group in any capacity,
made a soldier. He spent the first weeks sleepless and scared but by the end he was a stone cold killer; he killed without second thought and never felt pain due to the drugs he was on at the time. He spent about 2 to 3 years as a child soldier before being taken to a rehabilitation center to help him recover from the drugs and to help him and other child soldiers cope with the PTSD so they could live normal lives after the war. Ishmael is not the only person who was once a child soldier, seven in
“A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier” Summary In “A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier”, Ishmael Beah’s life story is one of fear, horror, and tragedy. Growing up as a child soldier in Sierra Leone’s civil war brought struggles unthinkable for a teenager to bear. When the war first came into Beah’s life, it was with the sudden force of a tornado. Beah had been living in Mattru Jong without worry. He enjoyed doing things normal 12 year olds should: playing with friends, making mischief
Romeo Dallaire, is the author of The Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children, and he states, “It may seem unimaginable to you that child soldiers exist and yet the reality for many rebel gang leaders, and even state governments, is that there is no more complete end-to-end weapon system in the inventory of war machines than the child soldier… Man has created the ultimate cheap, expendable, yet sophisticated human weapon at the expense of humanity’s own future: its children.” There are many conflicts
his life; whether it was with his family and friends or at war against the rebels in Sierra Leone. During the attack on his village in Mogbwemo, Beah was separated from his family when he was in another city with his brother and friends. At the young age of twelve, Beah was forced to flee from village to village with the aim of escaping the rebels. Eventually, he reluctantly joined the army as a soldier against the rebels. Throughout his memoir, Beah used multiple different tones. Beah described
Child soldier is a worldwide issue, but it became most critical in the Africa. Child soldiers are any children under the age of 18 who are recruited by some rebel groups and used as fighters, cooks, messengers, human shields and suicide bombers, some of them even under the aged 10 when they are forced to serve. Physically vulnerable and easily intimidated, children typically make obedient soldiers. Most of them are abducted or recruited by force, and often compelled to follow orders under threat
during conflicts. In case of western African countries, such children have been forced to soldier hood, making them lack parental care and education. CAUSES OF CONFLICTS IN WEST AFRICA. In this region, citizens in western African countries like Congo, Sierra Leone and Nigeria to mention but just a few. These are some of the countries that have over a decade, experienced a number of conflicts, leading to child soldier. The leading number one for conflicts in these countries is competition over the natural
and girls deemed child soldiers participate in armed conflict, risking their lives and killing more innocent others. While many individuals recollect their childhood playing games and running freely, these children will remember “playing” with guns and running for their lives. Many children today spend time playing video games like Modern Warfare, but for some children, it is not a game, it is reality. Although slavery was abolished nearly 150 years ago, the act of forcing a child into a military