Article 38: Governments must do everything they can to protect and care for children affected by war. Governments must not allow children under the age of 15 to take part in war or join the armed forces.
I strongly believe that child soldiers under 18 should be given amnesty because of these three reasons:
• Most of the children are forced into being soldiers
• The child soldiers can’t leave once they are recruited
• If they don’t follow orders they are killed and new kids are recruited against their will.
A number of child soldiers today are difficult to distinguish, the UN estimates that some 300,000 children are involved in more than 30 conflicts worldwide today child soldiers should be given amnesty because most of these children …show more content…
I have developed this opinion after conducting research on this topic. I have discovered that child soldiers are often forced into fighting through false promises. They are also forced into fighting through drugs and alcohol. The drugs, often cocaine mixed with gun powder, brainwash the children to the point where they would rather not escape from the horror unravelling around them. I personally believe anyone who has to submit to such horrors and atrocities should not be prosecuted for the crimes they committed. Furthermore, I consider child soldiers different from ordinary child criminals. Child soldiers, as I have mentioned earlier, are abducted and then forced into murdering innocent human beings. They have no choice if they don’t fight they're killed if they fight they kill. Child criminals, on the other hand, are not forced into killing innocent civilians; they do it through a motive, often weak ones, such as killing someone for their money. In 1998, Lionel Tate, a 12-year-old boy, was convicted of murdering a 6-year-old girl he was babysitting. Unlike child soldiers, Lionel Tate was not forced into murdering. I do think children such as Lionel should be prosecuted, whereas child soldiers who are forcibly recruited shouldn’t be. I believe they should be taken to rehabilitation centres in order for them to be reintegrated into
I strongly believe that child soldiers under 18 should be given amnesty because of these three reasons:
• Most of the children are forced into being soldiers
• The child soldiers can’t leave once they are recruited
• If they don’t follow orders they are killed and new kids are recruited against their will.
A number of child soldiers today are difficult to distinguish, the UN estimates that some 300,000 children are involved in more than 30 conflicts worldwide today child soldiers should be given amnesty because most of these children …show more content…
I have developed this opinion after conducting research on this topic. I have discovered that child soldiers are often forced into fighting through false promises. They are also forced into fighting through drugs and alcohol. The drugs, often cocaine mixed with gun powder, brainwash the children to the point where they would rather not escape from the horror unravelling around them. I personally believe anyone who has to submit to such horrors and atrocities should not be prosecuted for the crimes they committed. Furthermore, I consider child soldiers different from ordinary child criminals. Child soldiers, as I have mentioned earlier, are abducted and then forced into murdering innocent human beings. They have no choice if they don’t fight they're killed if they fight they kill. Child criminals, on the other hand, are not forced into killing innocent civilians; they do it through a motive, often weak ones, such as killing someone for their money. In 1998, Lionel Tate, a 12-year-old boy, was convicted of murdering a 6-year-old girl he was babysitting. Unlike child soldiers, Lionel Tate was not forced into murdering. I do think children such as Lionel should be prosecuted, whereas child soldiers who are forcibly recruited shouldn’t be. I believe they should be taken to rehabilitation centres in order for them to be reintegrated into