Argumentative Essay On Child Soldiers

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At the beginning of researching, I was really unsure what I thought about this whole topic. It was the first time ever thinking about it. Know, doing a lot of research, I think that child soldiers should not be called criminals, they should be victims.
I saw a lot of information about kids being forced to kill their best friends. According to TRTWORLD article, "I was forced literally to kill my best friend as an initiation process into the army," a former child soldier from Democratic Republic of Congo Michel Chikwanine told The WorldPost. "That's something I will never forget, and I still fight with every single day.” I think sometimes, we take our friends for granted. I think that for anyone, killing your best friend would be like killing …show more content…

In the article “Armed and Underaged” by Jefferey Gettleman, he stated “ “Girls are often pressed into duty as cooks or messengers. Many are subjected to sexual abuse, including rape.” I find this awful. I can understand, I can't really say that I agree with the girls being cooks but i definitely am disgusted by the thought of them being sexually abused. It is a horrible thing and it should happen to nobody. Although they have been forced into abuse and horrible duties, they have taken many lives and this is still considered heinous and horrific. Alex Neve wrote, “I was fortunate enough to have escaped to Kenya and found another life through music. But the lives of many children are cut short before they can escape. The most difficult part of this situation is that these children do not have a choice when they are introduced, often after they have been orphaned.” Emmanuel Jal talks about how his life didn't get cut short, but many lives of young children get cut short, it they dont make the decision to escape before they could get killed. I think it was different for the other kids than it was for Emmanuel because he found something to make it a little better. He found Music. A lot of kids have to be put in a orphanage because of what happened to them.(March 19, 2013 at 3:26

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