Children come into this world in hopes of being the future of this world, but they never imagine themselves as stone cold killers. The dilemma of child soldiers has spread to hundreds of countries around the world and has no intention of slowing. Now, an estimated 300,000 children fight wars under the forceful hand of local militias that care none for the people they effect. They suffer the cruelest of things during their time as a child soldiers, the effects are frightening including all sorts of trauma that they may never recover from. Now these child soldiers have grown up and are looking for redemption in the new world but first are being prosecuted for their crimes as warlords. Child soldiers should be given amnesty because they were forced
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They are blamed for the crimes they committed to others, but it should be taken into account how they were also the victims of these shameful events. They were succumbed to do these things with the thought that they were doing the right thing. The article states, ““Child soldiers should not be prosecuted on account of what they have done but should rather be rehabilitated and given a second chance to re enter society as a human beings”(IRIN). This is significant because it shows tells the idea of how child soldiers were not treated as human beings but rather as objects that the army uses at their own expense without a care in the world. Perhaps if we were to take a look into their world we would understand the frustrations of being a child soldier and not being able to help yourself or others. Not to mention the extreme emphasis on the expanded usage of child soldiers around the world has given people much to think about. This is because many realize that they are mostly victims and that they should be pardoned rather than scrutinized for things that they were victims. A first hand source of these child soldiers tragedies states, ““At the end of the day, these children are victims of older soldiers, forced into war out of personal circumstances or peer pressure. Some are seeking revenge after seeing their families slaughtered. Once they're given an AK-47 and drugs, their innocence is lost, replaced by a killer instinct”(Koinange). This explains how children were put to the test to become the people they are today. Only because they were victims of much older child soldiers who had been through the same things. Child soldiers were the victims of these horrific events and were also victims of their own homes who were not able to protect them from the armies that had taken these children from their
They are blamed for the crimes they committed to others, but it should be taken into account how they were also the victims of these shameful events. They were succumbed to do these things with the thought that they were doing the right thing. The article states, ““Child soldiers should not be prosecuted on account of what they have done but should rather be rehabilitated and given a second chance to re enter society as a human beings”(IRIN). This is significant because it shows tells the idea of how child soldiers were not treated as human beings but rather as objects that the army uses at their own expense without a care in the world. Perhaps if we were to take a look into their world we would understand the frustrations of being a child soldier and not being able to help yourself or others. Not to mention the extreme emphasis on the expanded usage of child soldiers around the world has given people much to think about. This is because many realize that they are mostly victims and that they should be pardoned rather than scrutinized for things that they were victims. A first hand source of these child soldiers tragedies states, ““At the end of the day, these children are victims of older soldiers, forced into war out of personal circumstances or peer pressure. Some are seeking revenge after seeing their families slaughtered. Once they're given an AK-47 and drugs, their innocence is lost, replaced by a killer instinct”(Koinange). This explains how children were put to the test to become the people they are today. Only because they were victims of much older child soldiers who had been through the same things. Child soldiers were the victims of these horrific events and were also victims of their own homes who were not able to protect them from the armies that had taken these children from their