Is it known to the billions in this world, of the many who are unfairly tortured? Many people, even children, suffer from being roughly ordered around and punished if they do not follow rules. Among these people, are child soldiers. The Middle East, where most children are recruited, is filled with cities of rubble. Children living in this environment cannot go to school, starve and may even be abandoned or separated from their parents. Child soldiers experience awful wars with bloodshed. Fighting in war, child soldiers commit crimes each and every time they set foot on the battlefield. Is this their choice to perform illegal actions? Despite that fact that some may believe child soldiers shouldn’t be given amnesty, I strongly believe child
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Child soldiers are unsuspecting of the dangers, and trouble they have put themselves into when they fire a bullet at an opponent. One authority described the children’s mentality:“ ‘Children are often desired as recruits because they can be easily intimidated and indoctrinated. They lack the mental maturity and judgment to express consent or to fully understand the implications of their actions… and are pushed by their adult commanders into perpetrating atrocities,’ the report said” (“Should child soldiers be prosecuted for their crimes?” from irinnews.org). Child soldiers do not realize that they should not let adults push them around. Child soldiers are told to kill and obey the grown-ups instruction because they believe one who is superior of them is always telling them the right thing to do. Also, many of these child soldiers come from places with wrecked schools. The poor environment averts child soldiers from getting the education they need. So, it may be implied that without these schools, without education, a child will not know what is right and what is wrong. “Most children have never been in a classroom or played in a park” (“Armed and Underage” by Jeffrey Gettleman). Child soldiers are not exposed to learning environments like schools; all they have ever known and adapted to are battlefields. Children, being so young, have not developed the skill of identifying right from wrong. In their heads, everything is right, everything is okay to
Child soldiers are unsuspecting of the dangers, and trouble they have put themselves into when they fire a bullet at an opponent. One authority described the children’s mentality:“ ‘Children are often desired as recruits because they can be easily intimidated and indoctrinated. They lack the mental maturity and judgment to express consent or to fully understand the implications of their actions… and are pushed by their adult commanders into perpetrating atrocities,’ the report said” (“Should child soldiers be prosecuted for their crimes?” from irinnews.org). Child soldiers do not realize that they should not let adults push them around. Child soldiers are told to kill and obey the grown-ups instruction because they believe one who is superior of them is always telling them the right thing to do. Also, many of these child soldiers come from places with wrecked schools. The poor environment averts child soldiers from getting the education they need. So, it may be implied that without these schools, without education, a child will not know what is right and what is wrong. “Most children have never been in a classroom or played in a park” (“Armed and Underage” by Jeffrey Gettleman). Child soldiers are not exposed to learning environments like schools; all they have ever known and adapted to are battlefields. Children, being so young, have not developed the skill of identifying right from wrong. In their heads, everything is right, everything is okay to