A child is the next generation in changing the world. Under harsh and cruel influences their path become to be a child soldiers. People who lost a loved one and want justice done on the child soldiers that did not have control of what they are doing to commit the crime. Around the world, at least 300,000 children are soldiers. The children are destroyed from not having a childhood when they are given this task of being a soldier. Many Child soldiers should receive amnesty unless they willingly volunteer to be a child soldiers. They are more like victims than killer because they are adolescents, sensitive, not given a choice, and afraid to escape. Children deserve to be forgiven for their actions, they are too young to understand and are …show more content…
The officers manipulate and brainwash the children so they can kill. They do not have a fully developed brain to understand the situation and to separate from wrong to right. Children join the war, but they are more like pawns taking a knight job, “with military grade weapons and 13-year-old brides. Its ranks are filled with boys brainwashed to burn down hut and pound newborn babies to death.(Gettleman 3).” With this point stated, the adolescents are underage as they are being joined the unit. The army pressure the children's with trickery, then armed with a gun and taught to kill. Beah a former child soldier, says that after adjusting to killing it, “became as easy as drinking water (Gettleman 16).” Children easily adjusted to the crimes but they didn’t sign up to do it. Likewise, since the children are weaker and
As defined by Timothy Webster, author of Babes with Arms: International Law and Child Soldiers, a child soldier is “any person under the age of eighteen who is or has been associated with any kind of regular or irregular armed group, including those who serve as porters, spies, cooks, messengers and including girls recruited for sexual purposes (Webster, 2007, pp.230). As this definition reveals, a child soldier is more than simply a child with a gun. It is estimated that there are approximately 300,000 children under the age of 18, being used as soldiers in 33 conflicts currently, and this figure continues to rise (Webster, 2007, pp.227). Similarly, in 1999 it was estimated that more than 120,000 children, under the age of 18, were used as soldiers to fight ...
Children at such a young age don't have the mental ability to think long term about their actions, especially when they are being forced or drugged. Some may argue that if child criminals get punished for their actions, then child soldiers should too, but that is just not the case. The difference being, child criminals choose to commit their crimes, child soldiers are forced to commit crimes. As an example, in the article Child Soldiers it states, “More often than not, children have no say in whether they enlist or not and once recruited the children have become brainwashed through the use of drugs and alcohol” (Child Soldiers).
Child soldier is a worldwide issue, but it became most critical in the Africa. Child soldiers are any children under the age of 18 who are recruited by some rebel groups and used as fighters, cooks, messengers, human shields and suicide bombers, some of them even under the age of 10 when they are forced to serve. Physically vulnerable and easily intimidated, children typically become obedient soldiers. Most of them are abducted or recruited by force, and often compelled to follow orders under threat of death. As society breaks down during conflict, leaving children with no access to school, driving them from their homes, or separating them from family members, many children feel that rebel groups are their best chance for survival.
Imagine being given a gun and drugs and forced to kill on demand or be killed. This is the life of a child soldier in a nutshell. There is no question that child soldiers should be given amnesty because they are being forced to do things against their will and hardly have a choice of what they are doing. A child in a village doesn’t get to decide if their village is attacked and they are made a soldier. It is wrong that someone, especially a child, should be held accountable for something they can’t control except to lose their own life instead.
“Compelled to become instruments of war, to kill and be killed, child soldiers are forced to give violent expression to the hatreds of adults” (“Child Soldiers” 1). This quotation by Olara Otunnu explains that children are forced into becoming weapons of war. Children under 18 years old are being recruited into the army because of poverty issues, multiple economic problems, and the qualities of children, however, many organizations are trying to implement ways to stop the human rights violation.
These are the words of a 15-year-old girl in Uganda. Like her, there are an estimated 300,000 children under the age of eighteen who are serving as child soldiers in about thirty-six conflict zones (Shaikh). Life on the front lines often brings children face to face with the horrors of war. Too many children have personally experienced or witnessed physical violence, including executions, death squad killings, disappearances, torture, arrest, sexual abuse, bombings, forced displacement, destruction of home, and massacres. Over the past ten years, more than two million children have been killed, five million disabled, twelve million left homeless, one million orphaned or separated from their parents, and ten million psychologically traumatized (Unicef, “Children in War”). They have been robbed of their childhood and forced to become part of unwanted conflicts. In African countries, such as Chad, this problem is increasingly becoming a global issue that needs to be solved immediately. However, there are other countries, such as Sierra Leone, where the problem has been effectively resolved. Although the use of child soldiers will never completely diminish, it has been proven in Sierra Leone that Unicef's disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration program will lessen the amount of child soldiers in Chad and prevent their use in the future.
Those who are forcibly recruited are forced to fight and they get taken away from their families. Those who joined willingly probably didn’t join because they want to, but because they wanted to escape hunger and poverty. When they are forced to join, they have to follow orders, and in some cases if you don’t do what you’re told to do, you get killed. They get recruited because they can easily be intimidated, and since most lack mental maturity, they tend to be manipulated easily. Others
When war is thought of, usually a picture comes to mind of man vs man, nut in reality, there is women, and even children. Children fighting, killing, dieing. The natural thought of a child may be happiness, games, and toys. What about guns, grenades, and explosions? That is right, guns. Children with guns, killing other human beings is quite disturbing once really thought of. Children from other countries killing other without regret. Child soldiers should be held accountable for their actions. These children committed serious crimes, they had a choice to do what they did, and these children lack emotion.
There are more than 300,000 child soldiers in the world which is an astonishing number. They are forced into war, are criminals and do crimes such as forcing rape, killing, and recruiting other children. But the question is, should these child soldiers be given amnesty? No, and i'm going to tell you why.
Child soldiers do not deserve amnesty because determining which deserve it requires too many resources, many of the soldiers volunteered, and they could be dangers to society. The testing needed to determine which child soldiers deserve amnesty quires a large sum of money. This money would have to be taken from the tax money of the housing country, which will cause the tax rates to increase. Some people believe the child soldiers deserve amnesty. The people think this because some of the children were kidnapped and forced into fighting, while also being under the influence of drugs. Many of the child soldiers volunteered to fight and kill others. They believed that volunteering to fight would be patriotic and they wanted to take revenge on America. Child soldiers should not be provided amnesty because it demands too many resources, many of the soldiers volunteered, and the children could be dangers to society.
Child Soldiers are all over and have been widely discussed.They have caused some the worst crimes but under some circumstances where they had no choice. These children should be given amnesty depending if the child soldiers can be rehabilitated and learn what they did was horrible, wrong, and they wouldn’t kill again. Not all can be given amnesty but at least we can give a few children a chance to live a life without the drugs, killings, and abuse.
Screams of terror rang throughout the emotionless void as crimson droplets splattered the rugged land. Shrieks strike the ear like lethal steel blades, overcoming the thunder of black powder. Someone died yet life still went on, leaving more deaths in its path. But this one is special, a child died not at the hands of an adult but another child. Throughout the world, thousands and thousands of children are pressured by armed forces to fight.
Child Soldiers have commited horrible crimes under the fear of death from their own groups. Child soldiers and their prosecution is a big debate going on right now. Should they be prosecuted you tell me? In my opinion child soldiers should not be prosecuted as criminals will not stop if they arrested and the children didn’t have control over their actions. Child soldiers shouldn’t be prosecuted People like the UN are only going to politely tell them to stop what they're doing.
Well we all say that we hate waking up to go to school, but can you imagine waking up in the middle of the night to prepare for a war that you're not even ready for? These kids were taken from their homes their families some were kidnapped from events. They never got to feel safe again these kids have gone through so much. Kids were drugged they dependent on them we tell our kids to stay away from them, when there's kids younger than 10 doing them. All these kids thought the other soldiers were trying to kill them but in reality they were trying to help them!
The General Assembly, Defines a child soldier as a person under the age of 18, who directly or indirectly participated in an armed conflict as part of an armed force or group, Notes that most areas using child soldiers are in LEDC’s and those children join the military as a way of survival for food and shelter, Alarmed that although the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) set 18 as the minimum voluntary recruitment age, there is still an estimated amount of 300,000 child soldiers around the world, Deeply disturbed by the fact that children under the age of 18 may be misused by the army as porters, lookouts, messengers, cooks, sex slaves, or fight in the front line, Viewing with satisfaction the recent measures taken by Sri