Child Soldiers In Uganda

For centuries wars have always been fought by men. They killed, they die, and come back home as heroes. That has always been their duty to protect and served their country. In this new era, wars are being fought by children. Their innocent lives are dragged and forced to fight in wars. Right at this second as we are having a normal life, there are children fighting a war that we are not aware about. This is the case in Africa, Uganda. For decades the uprising of rebel groups have led to wars in some parts of Uganda. The use of child soldiers has increased in the region. Rebel groups stormed into villages, destroying, killing, raping, and abducting children to fill up their ranks. They brainwashed the children and covert them into war machines. …show more content…
“The United Nations was born of perceived necessity, as a means of better arbitrating international conflict and negotiating peace than was provided for by the old League of Nations” (History, The United Nations Is Born, Par 2) In April 25, 1945 the first Conference of the U.N Charter was held at San Francisco. 51 nations were considered to be the the original members of the U.N. Including members from continental European states, North, Central and South America, Middle Eastern States, Soviet republics, East Asian nations and African States. The U.N had two other important objectives described in the charter. First one was respecting the principles of equal rights and self determination of all people. Second objective was international cooperation in solving economic, social, cultural, and humanitarian problems around the world. The U.N is broken into different branches. The Security Council is the main branch of the U.N. They have the responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security of the world. The security council has 15 members and each one of the has a vote. They also have five permanent members which are called the Big Five. The United States, China, France, Russia, and the United Kingdom are the big five in the security council.”The Security Council takes the lead in determining the existence of a threat to the peace or act of aggression”(U.N, The Security Council, Par 2) …show more content…
Unfortunately they achieve that and they sought vengeance against the ethnic groups. They killed, looted villages and burned them as well. These acts of violence led to the formations of many rebel groups from the previous Uganda amy. Many of the groups made peace treaties with Yoweri Museveni. “the southern-dominated army did not stop attacking civilians in the north of the country. Therefore, by late 1987 to early 1988 a civilian resistance movement led by Alice Lakwena was formed.” (Wikipedia, Lord’s Resistance Army. Par 4) Her objective was to Overthrow the Museveni government, but her army was more of an activist groups and an army. They only carried stone a stick with them. Everything changed when Joseph Kony join the movement. “Kony gained a reputation as having been possessed by spirits and became a spiritual figure or a medium.”(Wikipedia, Lord’s Resistance Army. Par 8) With his reputation he recruited a small group of followers from his village and some former members of the Uganda National Liberation Front and manage to launch an attack on the city of Gulu. in 1987 the Holy Spirit army had several victories but in 1988 they were defeated in the Jinja District. Lakwena had to fled the country and went to Kenya. Kony saw the opportunity and recruited the Holy Spirit remnants. He