Child Soldiers Persuasive Letter

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Child soldiers are most commonly present in developing countries and sought out by many warlords because they can fight for longer and do not disrespect orders given to them. Most child soldiers are 15 to 17 years old and at this time in adolescence, they, are very impressionable and malleable. Because of this countless children around the world lose their innocence and childhood to the people that give them false hopes and promises to fight for them. Since most child soldiers are children from third world countries their families are usually impoverished and these warlords take advantage of this. In many cases child, soldiers sign contracts of about 10 years to secure their families safety and health, but what they don’t know is that that 10 year period of service is just the beginning. These child soldiers innocence is stolen from them and they are put to work like slaves and because of this, I believe that all child soldiers should be granted amnesty for their war crimes. …show more content…
This helps illustrate the analysis that child soldiers should be granted amnesty because they are not able to as clearly discern what is right and what is wrong. Why this matters is that children, unlike adults, cannot tell that they are being taken advantage of and after they are brainwashed by their commanders they don't know what they are doing is a war crime. Some might say, however, that these child soldiers are choosing to volunteer for service and that is true to an extent, but as Ishmael Beah said, “ we were given a choice to leave or to fight, but everyone who left was killed.” So you see, these children really do have no choice whether to fight or to remain neutral among these