Sierra Leone Civil War

amnesty goes all the way back to World War 1, “Nearly every country involved in these wars made use of child soldiers” (Child soldiers in History). Now child soldiers are being used all around the world, mostly in Africa. These child soldiers should be given amnesty because they were abducted, drugged, and forced into fighting. One of the reasons why child soldiers should be given amnesty is that they were abducted and taken into fighting. Leaders of violent war groups have resorted to using…

memoirs Ishmael Beah recounts his experiences of fighting a war as a boy soldier. Ishmael and his friends went on the run after their village was attacked by rebels. Not long after they were on the run from town to town, and eventually being caught and recruited by the army. The army was against what the rebels were doing, and how they were attacking the different villages and burning them to the ground. During the war ,Ishmael during the war is selected along with a group of his friends to go…

The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini, follows Amir, a boy from Kabul, Afghanistan, through his emotion-filled life. Throughout the novel, we witness Amir’s experiences with extreme guilt, unworthiness, selfishness, and selflessness. Majority of his relationships have one of these embedded into them. Including his relationships with Hassan, his family’s servant, and his dad, Baba. Hassan and his father, Ali, both serve Baba and Amir. Hassan is around Amir’s age, and because of that, they often…

Sator ENG 4C1 18 Dec 2015 Recovery from the war Death seen during the war is a powerful thing that can break everybody 's mind even if you have a strong body or a huge gun . Often men who returned home are completely changed after the violence they have passed through . Mostly this effects children that were involved in the war in the age of 16 or even younger .During these years children form their vision of the world , so the events like a war, especially if they are involved in it,…

There is a boy who is a member of child soldiers of Muslim Seleka because he thought it was the best way to earn money. He said that he killed a lot of people with no ideas and he sold weapon that was AK47 which was used to kill people(Smith). As one kinds of child labour, child soldiers& problems is very harsh for children to bear. Also there are children who work in cacao farm, because he is a salve of mister, who is manage on the cacao farm. They star to labor on 6A.M. and end in the evening,…

During the memoir there were so many memorable character that were played a big role in Ishmael’s life. I believe that the Lieutenant who trained Ishmael and his friends to become the boy soldiers they were in their childhood to be the most interesting character to me. How they met was actually an interesting and rather sad story. Before the rebels destroyed Ishmael’s village, Ishmael left the village to participate in a talent show with his friends. There also an interesting fact about the…

Most people have no idea what is going on in countries such as Iraq, Sudan or various African countries such as Sierra Leone when it comes to children. Children are often forced into war at the tender ages of 7-15. They will spend years of their lives fighting and killing human beings to the point where they will never be able to forget the inhumane phenomenons. It is so smart for these countries to use child soldiers, because they are at an age where they are most likely going to follow orders…

When war first broke out, Ishmael had to quickly adapt to the new environment, and he had to learn how to survive differently (25). During war, Ishmael had to adjust to being aware of rebels attacking him at any time, along with finding food and water between villages and the forest. His view on surviving had to change due to his situation, otherwise he could have been killed. Plus, he had to mature quickly in order to intake, along with survive through the war situation. When Ishmael…

Imagine being a soldier in a war and you're being attacked. Finally, you find the shooter, capture him, and it turns out to be a nine-year-old boy. What do you do? This is a situation in many countries around the world, adolescents as young as nine fighting in wars. Their families have been killed and they’ve been drugged so they become the perfect soldiers; they are cheap, loyal, and expendable. Commanders of armies who have child soldiers drug them to get rid of their emotions and kill in…

“‘At our age, it’s more complicated for the rebels. So they use stronger stuff, like drugs or money, to bait us and to make us march…I remember the attack on Njola-Kombouya village, in the south of Sierra Leone. They made us wake up at 1 in the morning and we marched until 7. A doctor came. He had a small bowl of cold water, and, every two injections, he rinsed his needle in the water. It was always a small vial with red liquid. At first, I constantly felt weak and then after, I had a sense of…