“BANG! POW!” “They’re firing! “They’re firing! Please hold your fire!’” screams out of the massive movie screen. Scenes filled with dead, decaying bodies laying on the ground, wives experiencing the heartache for their husbands to return in one piece, and fully loaded machine guns reaching their peak and plunging into the enemy. “‘Well this is intense”’, I say in my head. My eyes wandered in awe all across the screen. Suddenly I saw fragile children struggling to hold up their weapons. “‘Well this is different’.” Could you ever imagine this? Well, in countries such as Sudan and Somalia, children are forced to witness mass killings and suffer conditions such as rape and the most horrendous, becoming soldiers. In the articles, “Armed And Underaged”
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According to Polgreen, the author quotes I.C.C prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo of Argentina, "Al-Bashir organized the destitution, insecurity, and harassment of the survivors," he contends. "He did not need bullets. He used other weapons: rapes, hunger, and fear." In other words, Al-Bashir does not care about other refugees and he was a mastermind of crime and misbehavior, This goes back to the idea of war negatively affecting the minds greatly because the rape and hunger that the survivors experience under Bashir can lead to death and very harmful injuries. When you are raped, and you’ve seen hundreds of people dying right in front of your eyes, those images do not just easily escape you.The rape that Bashir conducts can also lead to death and injury because it holds people against their will and causes angst. Notwithstanding the fact that there is a little chance of dying, there is still mental pain that comes along with war, and you live your life wondering if you’ll make it to the next day, which puts you in a negative state of mind. Also, according to Polgreen, the author states, “Some people have said that for me to intervene at this point is shocking," he says. "I say what is going on now is shocking. Genocide is going on now, and it is …show more content…
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-four trucks, though they can barely see over their hoods.” To elaborate, this shows that children are commanded to complete tasks that require dangerous outcomes. Children join the army at such a young age. This shows mental pain causing great negative effects when it comes to war because children are forced to grow up in the state of loading guns, and running checkpoints, when they can’t go to school or even go to the park. This messes with young, children’s heads because they don’t know any better but to serve, kill and capture. They grow up with a fixed mindset that they must shoot guns and serve in the army, which leads to negative effects mentally because this should not be the mindset, and this should not be commanded upon a 9 year old boy, who has yet to experience the world. Yes, we recognize that there is physical harm that negatively affects humans when it comes to conflict and war, but the dominant aftermath of conflict and war is mental
According to Polgreen, the author quotes I.C.C prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo of Argentina, "Al-Bashir organized the destitution, insecurity, and harassment of the survivors," he contends. "He did not need bullets. He used other weapons: rapes, hunger, and fear." In other words, Al-Bashir does not care about other refugees and he was a mastermind of crime and misbehavior, This goes back to the idea of war negatively affecting the minds greatly because the rape and hunger that the survivors experience under Bashir can lead to death and very harmful injuries. When you are raped, and you’ve seen hundreds of people dying right in front of your eyes, those images do not just easily escape you.The rape that Bashir conducts can also lead to death and injury because it holds people against their will and causes angst. Notwithstanding the fact that there is a little chance of dying, there is still mental pain that comes along with war, and you live your life wondering if you’ll make it to the next day, which puts you in a negative state of mind. Also, according to Polgreen, the author states, “Some people have said that for me to intervene at this point is shocking," he says. "I say what is going on now is shocking. Genocide is going on now, and it is …show more content…
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-four trucks, though they can barely see over their hoods.” To elaborate, this shows that children are commanded to complete tasks that require dangerous outcomes. Children join the army at such a young age. This shows mental pain causing great negative effects when it comes to war because children are forced to grow up in the state of loading guns, and running checkpoints, when they can’t go to school or even go to the park. This messes with young, children’s heads because they don’t know any better but to serve, kill and capture. They grow up with a fixed mindset that they must shoot guns and serve in the army, which leads to negative effects mentally because this should not be the mindset, and this should not be commanded upon a 9 year old boy, who has yet to experience the world. Yes, we recognize that there is physical harm that negatively affects humans when it comes to conflict and war, but the dominant aftermath of conflict and war is mental