Though Shall Not Kill Led to No War for the Conscientious Objectors

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During the First World War, Britain announced conscription which meant that it was compulsory for men aged between16 to 19 to join to war, which made the Britain army massively increase in power. However some people refused the war for to join, reasons being that they were pacifists or religious objectors who followed the words of bible as it says in the bible “thou shall not kill” so were against the idea of shedding blood of their own kind. These people were own as conscientious objectors or short for conchies, conchies had a bad reputation within the eyes of to the government and general public as, general public saw conchies as criminals and tarter of their country, which resulted in segregation from general public. Furthermore, the government saw conchies as unpatriotic and cowards for not standing up or the country also throw biased opinions towards conchies as the government was blinded with the idea of being victorious in the war so feared that they would lose the war if men opposed against joining the war as around about 16,800 men went against joining the war. Moreover the government made life hell for conchies as government enforced tribunals which consisted of ex- military officials who purposely gave biased judgements which leaded to conchie getting prison sentences in which harsh treatment was done to provoke fear so conchies stop embracing the optioning they had and become patriotic.

There were 2 types of conchie non- commandants who were willing to help out in the war doing non-violence work and another type were absolutist how refused all types of work in the army. Moreover because of their beliefs they embraced nearly 6,000 were send to prison, 39 got sentenced to death and 10 died in prison of harsh treatm...

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...morial stone in Tavi Stock Garden which was made in 1994 which make it a primary source the source deems to us that conchie stood strong even with the tough punishment portrayed by general public and government. After the courageous battle conchie faced from general public and government, choice managed to hold strong, which paired of, as now conchie were not seen as coward however, remembered as courageous people in 15 may memorial day. The source is reliable even if the source is a photograph as, the photo show that choice got remembered thus the reliability does not get compromised. Being a secondary inpertation it still portrays positive aspect, as it allow us to see that chocie got recognition of their bravery from general public and government. The source is useful as it contradicts the view held of choice and portrays forward the positive aspect of them.

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