Child Soldiers how should they be treated?
Child soldiers, how should they be tried in court, as children or as adults? People are split on this issue, however I believe they should be tried as children. Although they’ve committed countless war crimes, they’ve been manipulated to do those things. In their trials evidence can be skewed to make them seem guilty. The situations they are in cause many to join the military, or they’re forced to. Children’s parents also sell their children to groups. The groups tell them that the family could be killed, for that reason the family’s may sell their children their and their children’s life. Although they may die in combat or from disease.
Khadr, a 15 year-old prisoner in Guantanamo Bay, was placed in there after killing a United States soldier. He was in a firefight where he was critically injured. He was interrogated after receiving medical treatment while under the influence of medication. The information they got would have been different if he wasn’t on that medication. He said he was happy to have killed the soldier, and showed no remorse at placing landmines that …show more content…
Lucia Withers of the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers has said this, “The use of child soldiers is widespread and very persistent.” The Somali government is using children as young as 9 to fight on the front lines, according to the article ‘Armed and Underage’. They are fighting Islamic insurgents. His commanders instigated what had happened at the village. Commanding officers and groups are the main problem. A militia commander has said this to Human Rights Watch about child soldiers, ‘They don’t complain, they don’t expect to be paid—and if you tell them to kill, they kill.’ This shows how children can be manipulated to do unspeakable things to people, and not feel any emotions towards what they
Child soldiers, how should they be tried in court, as children or as adults? People are split on this issue, however I believe they should be tried as children. Although they’ve committed countless war crimes, they’ve been manipulated to do those things. In their trials evidence can be skewed to make them seem guilty. The situations they are in cause many to join the military, or they’re forced to. Children’s parents also sell their children to groups. The groups tell them that the family could be killed, for that reason the family’s may sell their children their and their children’s life. Although they may die in combat or from disease.
Khadr, a 15 year-old prisoner in Guantanamo Bay, was placed in there after killing a United States soldier. He was in a firefight where he was critically injured. He was interrogated after receiving medical treatment while under the influence of medication. The information they got would have been different if he wasn’t on that medication. He said he was happy to have killed the soldier, and showed no remorse at placing landmines that …show more content…
Lucia Withers of the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers has said this, “The use of child soldiers is widespread and very persistent.” The Somali government is using children as young as 9 to fight on the front lines, according to the article ‘Armed and Underage’. They are fighting Islamic insurgents. His commanders instigated what had happened at the village. Commanding officers and groups are the main problem. A militia commander has said this to Human Rights Watch about child soldiers, ‘They don’t complain, they don’t expect to be paid—and if you tell them to kill, they kill.’ This shows how children can be manipulated to do unspeakable things to people, and not feel any emotions towards what they