Give Child Soldiers the Childhood They Deserve
Tens of thousands of children are being abducted in the night going who knows where. They will, soon enough, show up on the battlelines. A child soldier is any child under the age of 18 who is recruited or kidnapped by a group and used as fighters, suicide bombers, human shields, messengers, or spies. These children are being taken from their families and forced to fight and serve in the military against their will.
They will do what their persecutor tells them because the prosecutors are authority. Most children are weak and vulnerable and will do what they are told. This namely happens in the Middle East and Africa and has been happening for over 20 years. It is still happening. Children …show more content…
. .”). The commanders know that the drugs will affect the victims minds. They understand that the minors will do what they are told and do not know what they are doing.
The children knew that “[i]f anyone heard. . . it would mean his swift execution”(Blue, Laura, and Jonathan Woodward). The children knew that they would be tortured or killed so many of the children decided just to cooperate. The child soldiers were so afraid of what might happen to them they would do what they were told.
Some many argue that“[o]nce children are recruited into the military . . . they become dependent on . . .drugs,[and] alcohol”(“Child Soldiers. . .”) this way they do not have to take responsibility for their actions. Though this may be true for some it is not for all. The children that do willingly take the drugs want to be fighting. They do not want to responsibility for their war crimes and the drugs give them an excuse for that. The child soldiers that willingly take drugs and alcohol do not deserve amnesty. They have the free will to stop and they do
Tens of thousands of children are being abducted in the night going who knows where. They will, soon enough, show up on the battlelines. A child soldier is any child under the age of 18 who is recruited or kidnapped by a group and used as fighters, suicide bombers, human shields, messengers, or spies. These children are being taken from their families and forced to fight and serve in the military against their will.
They will do what their persecutor tells them because the prosecutors are authority. Most children are weak and vulnerable and will do what they are told. This namely happens in the Middle East and Africa and has been happening for over 20 years. It is still happening. Children …show more content…
. .”). The commanders know that the drugs will affect the victims minds. They understand that the minors will do what they are told and do not know what they are doing.
The children knew that “[i]f anyone heard. . . it would mean his swift execution”(Blue, Laura, and Jonathan Woodward). The children knew that they would be tortured or killed so many of the children decided just to cooperate. The child soldiers were so afraid of what might happen to them they would do what they were told.
Some many argue that“[o]nce children are recruited into the military . . . they become dependent on . . .drugs,[and] alcohol”(“Child Soldiers. . .”) this way they do not have to take responsibility for their actions. Though this may be true for some it is not for all. The children that do willingly take the drugs want to be fighting. They do not want to responsibility for their war crimes and the drugs give them an excuse for that. The child soldiers that willingly take drugs and alcohol do not deserve amnesty. They have the free will to stop and they do