Should Child Soldiers Be Persecuted

Do you think a kid who thinks killing is ok and volunteeringly did it because they enjoyed it should not be persecuted? According to Alex Biermann a student of Black Hawk Middle School, he believes they should be persecuted for the crimes they chose to do. A big reason to choose persecution for these kids is if they chose to do kill why are we not doing anything about, according to the article ,“Should child soldiers be prosecuted for their crimes?” it states that, “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 commanders into perpetrating atrocities”(Analysis:¨ …show more content…
For this reason the ICC and SCSL focus strongly on those persons most responsible for human rights and IHL violations and apply the concept of command responsibility to political and military leaders, Coomaraswamy said” (Analysis:¨ 2014).So yes if we let these kids go then the officers will use more and more to where the crime rates of minors will rapidly grow.
Now, there are children that were brought into war forcefully and they didn't choose to be in war, one might say this is why we shouldn't prosecute them, but later in the war they will start to enjoy killing and want to kill so if the children are prosecuted then there are no chances taken if we give the children what they deserve. Child soldiers should not be given amnesty because of the crimes they have caused. If anyother person older than theses children committed these crimes they would go to jail for life Do you still think these children should be given forgiveness or do you want more people