One of the major problems in the Middle East is child related. To be specific, child soldiers. It is estimated that there are over 38,000 kids who are forced into being child soldiers (Storr). Because child soldiers can’t prevent their horrific fate, they deserve to be granted amnesty by the United Nations. One main reason why they should be given amnesty is because they are forced and drugged into becoming killers. Children at such a young age don't have the mental ability to think long term of
Balaji Mr. Ruskus World Core 19 May 2014 Poverty and its Relation to Child Soldiers Throughout the world, the use of child soldiers in both civil wars and international conflicts has been evident. Children are combatants in nearly three-quarters of the world’s conflicts and pose . Moral reasons aside, the use of child soldiers leaves the population of demobilized child soldiers psychologically scarred, and regions where child soldiers are used risk long-term instability as children are consumed in ongoing
the world (Kaplan). These children are called child soldiers. A child soldier is classified as a person enlisted in an army or militia that is under the age of eighteen. (11 Facts). They are recruited into armies for many different reasons and used for many different tasks. There are a number of countries that children are forced to fight in such as Columbia, Myanmar, Iraq, and many more (11 Facts/Kaplan). Children should not be forced to be soldiers in war because it puts young lives at risk. Children
or are recruited into the military. Any child under the age of 18 is a target. The most vulnerable are children under the age of 10. Why? The younger they are, the easier it is to control them. No children should ever experience anything this inhumane and horrific. Unfortunately, these children are ripped from their innocence and forced into an unimaginable hell. Life in the military is not easy for anyone. Dedication is essential to be a successful soldier. However, the children forced into the military
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
In the United States the idea of children serving as soldiers is an unfathomable concept; in many countries around the world, however, child soldiers perform tasks such as robbery, torture, and even murder for people such as drug lords, and political activists. Things like this are tragic even for adults; dealing with death everyday, knowing that one could be killed any second by an opposing force can really hurt someone mentally, and physically. This tragedy is not really even thought of that much
When the word “soldier” comes to mind many people think of a strong courageous adult who is battling for their country. Many people think of a soldier as a person who has voluntarily put their lives in danger once again for their home and native people.After that when a “child” comes to mind you think a person who goes to school every day and loves to play and loves candy.You would never in a million years think these two would ever be together and combine to become one yet our society creates something
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
Child Soldiers “all across somalia, smooth hairless faces peek out from behind enormous guns. In blown out buildings children load bullets twice the size of their fingers. In neighborhoods by the sea they run checkpoints and stop four by fours trucks though they can barely see over there hoods.” That quote from new york times upfront armed and underage article shows how much of a problem child soldiers are and are becoming as the use of child soldiers becomes a more widespread practice. Now that
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,
A child soldier is anyone under the age of eighteen who is a member of government armed forces or any other armed group. Child soldiers should not be given amnesty, therefore, they should be prosecuted. This is because they have as much responsibility for their actions as everyone else, and most kids volunteer to become soldiers out of patriotism or desire to average the death of their families. Initially, child soldiers are no different than child criminals, they have as much responsibility as
amongst society is whether or not child soldiers should be considered as victims or criminals. There are children in this world that don’t get to experience the wonders of growing up. They are trained to hold a gun and shoot a man with no second thoughts, and if they don’t obey there are serious consequences, one being death. These children are bribed to become a soldier with money and food, sometimes they have to accept in order for their family to be fed. Child soldiers should be treated like victims
Child soldiers should be spared because they have been forcibly recruited into fighting. In countries such as Sierra Leone and others throughout the Middle East and Africa, governments have taken children from their families to fight for a cause that they may not believe in or for their nation that they may not support. In the article, Child Soldiers Should Be Prosecuted, published by debatewise.org, it states, “It may be that the child thought it would be safer to enlist
In some African countries, children are often used as child soldiers, either because they have nowhere to live, are orphans, have nowhere to live, they volunteered, or because they were forced. Some audience may believe that child soldiers are criminals, and some should be tried and because of war crimes they have committed, but they can also be victims because they are taken advantage of and used in ways that are inhumane. One reason on how they are victims is because they don’t really know the
Most people in this world need to end child soldiers because they are dangerous to kids and life expectancy and it will cause people to learn nothing about how the society works. Child soldiers are important in their lives because they are lacking in the knowledge, education, and their lifestyle. They need to live as normal kids. Kids need to know more about the world than being trained as soldiers. Children fought for their lives to defend their country by their own people. Children in Africa may
In this article Karil Rabins writes about how children are used as child soldiers in Somalia by Al-Shabaab. Rabins explains that up to 100 child Al-Shabaab recruits, many under the age of 18 are in the hands of Somali security forces after the Al Qaeda linked terror group Al-Shabaab launched a massive assault from the sea. She further states that many of these children accept to live intense lives, wander, and hide close to the sea where they do not complain even about their old wounds because they
would be like, to grow up and become and adult right away? Well, child soldiers have to face these problems every day of their lives! So I ask you, if you were taken away from your families today, would you want the world to view you as a criminal? I am going to argue that child soldiers should be treated as victims instead of criminals. And in my paper I will give you three strong arguments to prove why. In the article, “Witness: A Child Soldier’s Darfur Confession – ‘I shot her. She is dead.’, written
Child soldiers is a big problem in the world, and the question is that if they should be given amnesty? Child soldiers are normal children from the start, they play and do what children do, but what happens is that they are abducted or they join a rebel group or a army because they need food because their families were killed and they have nowhere else to go, or they were abducted. Child soldiers SHOULD be given amnesty because they have nowhere else to go, they don’t know what there doing, and they
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
mentally damaging situations. By internationally agreed definition, a child soldier is a "...Child associated with an armed force or armed group is any person below 18 years of age who is used by an armed force or armed group....It does not only refer to a child who is taking or has taken a direct part in hostilities."- Guidelines on Children Associated with Armed Forces. By this definition, there are some 300,000 child soldiers being used currently. Most of the children put into conflict are unlawfully