#6 Child Soldiers, Should They be given Amnesty
Child soldiers are a big problem in the world, and the question is that if they should be given amnesty? Child soldiers are normal children from the start, they play and do what children do, but what happens is that they are abducted or they join a rebel group or an army because they need food because their families were killed and they have nowhere else to go, or they were abducted. Child soldiers SHOULD be given amnesty because they have nowhere else to go, they do not know what there doing, and they can’t do anything about it.
One reason child soldiers should be given amnesty is because they are forced into fighting. A child soldier will join the army or rebel group because they have nowhere …show more content…
Children are a cheap and plentiful resource for military commanders in need of a steady troop supply to war zones. Their underdeveloped ability to assess danger means they are often willing to take risks and difficult assignments that adults or older teenagers will refuse. Children are more impressionable than adults, and depending on their age and background, their value systems and consciences are not yet fully developed.(steel) So, since they are so little they will be easy to manipulate their minds so they will kill anybody they tell them to. They are also torn from their families and they get broken down from war, “It’s much more than that. It is also a geostrategic and development issue. Child soldiers are usually depicted as victims. That’s accurate: Exploited, torn from their families, deprived of their education, and forced into battle, child soldiers are truly casualties of war.” (gates)They are then taken as a broken down child and ordered to do kill and them not knowing what they are doing, they …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.” But it's the commanders that make them do it and it's not like they want to do it, but their commanders make them do it because they know they will just be given amnesty, so really, it's the commanders that should be
Child soldiers are a big problem in the world, and the question is that if they should be given amnesty? Child soldiers are normal children from the start, they play and do what children do, but what happens is that they are abducted or they join a rebel group or an army because they need food because their families were killed and they have nowhere else to go, or they were abducted. Child soldiers SHOULD be given amnesty because they have nowhere else to go, they do not know what there doing, and they can’t do anything about it.
One reason child soldiers should be given amnesty is because they are forced into fighting. A child soldier will join the army or rebel group because they have nowhere …show more content…
Children are a cheap and plentiful resource for military commanders in need of a steady troop supply to war zones. Their underdeveloped ability to assess danger means they are often willing to take risks and difficult assignments that adults or older teenagers will refuse. Children are more impressionable than adults, and depending on their age and background, their value systems and consciences are not yet fully developed.(steel) So, since they are so little they will be easy to manipulate their minds so they will kill anybody they tell them to. They are also torn from their families and they get broken down from war, “It’s much more than that. It is also a geostrategic and development issue. Child soldiers are usually depicted as victims. That’s accurate: Exploited, torn from their families, deprived of their education, and forced into battle, child soldiers are truly casualties of war.” (gates)They are then taken as a broken down child and ordered to do kill and them not knowing what they are doing, they …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.” But it's the commanders that make them do it and it's not like they want to do it, but their commanders make them do it because they know they will just be given amnesty, so really, it's the commanders that should be