Argumentative Essay: Child Soldiers

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Essay: Child Soldiers Child soldiers, are any child under 18 years of age, who is a part of any kind of regular or irregular armed force or armed group in any capacity. Some of the most egregious use of young minors forced to fight took place in Burundi, Colombia, democratic republic of the Congo, Liberia, Myanmar, and Uganda. Around the world, thousands of boys and girls are recruited into government armed forces and rebel groups to serve as combatants, cooks, porters, messengers, or in other roles. The horrible and terrible fate of numerous unfortunate children is set on a path of war, murders, and suffering; more nations should help to prevent the tragedies and to end the suffering of these poor, unfortunate, innocent children. War, arguably a …show more content…

Children are often abducted from families and forced to serve. When the young children come back from the war, returning to their old lives and live with their families is interdiction, it’s as if they had been abducted from their childhood. The further this situation continues, the longer young minors are being recruited causes a high rate of death, physically injuries, and mentally damaged; as a result, 2 million children have been killed in the conflict, over 1 million have been orphaned, over 6 million have been seriously injured or permanently disabled and over 10 million have been left with serious psychological trauma ;in fact, around 12 million children left homeless(“Children in war”). A solution to this to this horrifying tragedy, no child should go through the suffering and misery of being dissociated from their family. At least half of the estimated 57.4 million people displaced by war around the world are children, and millions of those children have been separated from their

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