Kids and adults are to totally different kind of people, but separation from an adolescent from an adult is that the child’s brain is not fully developed until the age of 25. Also as the University of Harvard’s …show more content…
If a kids does a commit a war crime and is not charged for any crimes, then commanders can make the children do the most drastic decisions, and not worry about any charges against that child. Child soldiers should be punished so the commanders do have a fear in their minds of a punishment.
These kids who are fighting don’t have a choice, or even a real reason except for being forced to. “They are forced to kill other children, as well as adults, and they are hardly ever rewarded with any true respect. Says Thomas, recruited at age 13 and now partially paralyzed as a result of blows to his backbone” Says Child Soldiers in The DRC; The DRC goes on to say, “Other children join the armies when they are young after witnessing their houses pillaged, their sisters and mothers raped, and their fathers butchered.” Kids need a role model in life, and a warlord is not what a kid needs.
Child soldiers are being used all around the world, and are being killed everyday. The child’s brain is not fully developed when the kid is taken away from their family and forced to fight. This causes the kid to make unreasonable choices. The other side though might say that it's murder none of the less and needs a punishment. Besides the kid is being forced to kill or do other war jobs. Child soldiers indeed need to be given