Bullet shells litter the ground your bare feet are treading on like dead leaves in Autumn. The only pair of clothes you own are torn and two sizes too small but it’s all you have. The main emphasis of your appearance is not any of this, but the enormous machine gun slung over your starved body. No emotion is felt from you; no regret, hurt, or pleasure. The only thing you want is the chemically dangerous drugs fed as a reward to you in the little food you are given. Was this your choice? Did you choose to be consistently in fear, not of your life at risk, but of what will happen to you if you do not complete your assignment? Did you choose to pull the trigger targeting the person who held you at gunpoint? Kill or be killed. This will be all
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In an article it claims, “Their growth has been stunted by conflict-induced famines, their psyches damaged by all the killings they have witnessed” (Jeffrey Gettleman). This is significant for it reveals the negative effects the children endure because of the tragic events that their army commanders force them to endure. Another passage found in an article entitled, “Should Child Soldiers be Prosecuted for Their Crimes?”, it is made apparent that, “They like the mental maturity and judgement to express consent or to fully understand the implications of their actions...and are pushed by their adult commanders into perpetrating atrocities.” This report is important because it describes the negative impact the adult leaders have on the mentally immature child soldiers. As a final point, a report about children involved in war quotes, “As a child in Somalia, you risk death all the time: you can be killed, recruited and sent to the frontline, punished by al-Shabab because you are caught listening to music or 'wearing the wrong clothes', be forced to fend for yourself because you have lost your parents or even die because you don’t have access to adequate medical care” (Children in Somalia facing war crimes). This shows the constant risks of being killed daily under the leadership of the army commanders of child
In an article it claims, “Their growth has been stunted by conflict-induced famines, their psyches damaged by all the killings they have witnessed” (Jeffrey Gettleman). This is significant for it reveals the negative effects the children endure because of the tragic events that their army commanders force them to endure. Another passage found in an article entitled, “Should Child Soldiers be Prosecuted for Their Crimes?”, it is made apparent that, “They like the mental maturity and judgement to express consent or to fully understand the implications of their actions...and are pushed by their adult commanders into perpetrating atrocities.” This report is important because it describes the negative impact the adult leaders have on the mentally immature child soldiers. As a final point, a report about children involved in war quotes, “As a child in Somalia, you risk death all the time: you can be killed, recruited and sent to the frontline, punished by al-Shabab because you are caught listening to music or 'wearing the wrong clothes', be forced to fend for yourself because you have lost your parents or even die because you don’t have access to adequate medical care” (Children in Somalia facing war crimes). This shows the constant risks of being killed daily under the leadership of the army commanders of child