Argumentative Epidemy: An Essay On Child Soldiers

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Child Amnesty Child soldiers, that’s a weird thing to say isn’t it? Now some may think that child soldiers are not real, but they are far from being unrealistic. Most child soldier armies are located in the continents of Africa, and even in parts of South America. The strongest, or most relentless child soldier army is what is called, the Lord’s Resistance Army, in shorter terms, the LRA. These child soldiers did things that many people cannot forgive, many court cases these days are based on if child soldiers deserve what is called amnesty. Child soldiers DO deserve amnesty, what people do not know is that they have been manipulated/or were not in the right mindset, they were drugged, and were forced into it/abducted. Manipulation can be …show more content…

In the army, even girls had it worse than the boys, in the article, Social Issues: Child Soldiers, it points out the actions that the girls were forced to do to keep the men pleased. The author wrote, “Girls not only fight on the front lines but provide domestic labor and serve as “wives.” From the age of 13 they may be given to boy soldiers or adult commanders. They have no choice: those who refuse are killed or raped.” (Michelle Steel para 4). This without a doubt resembles of how child soldiers deserve amnesty, because not only the fact that they were forced into the army. They were completely manipulated and forced to do things that children in the right mindset would not do. Girls were forced to provide things to the men and played the role of a “wife” if they had not played that role, they would have been killed or raped. Though it is already a cruel things for the young girls and women, they were forced to even kill their own family members or close relatives. The article Should Child Soldiers be Prosecuted, reads, "I was forced literally to kill my best friend as an initiation process into the army, a former child soldier from Democratic Republic of Congo Michel Chikwanine,” (Asena Bosnak para 5). If they had learned from the same concept that we had, they wouldn’t have killed their best friend. They were forced to do cruel and inhumane things that had destructed the way of how they should think AND act. This former child soldier was forced to kill their best friend, just because they were forced to had join the army. The children had no say, or no choice in what they wanted, they were forced to do as they were told and if they had not, they would have been beaten or even

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