Argumentative Essay: Child Soldiers
Imagine your child or sibling has two choices, to get their limbs cut off, or to join the army. This makes me believe that the kids in the military are mostly victims. Because the children are forced, drugged, and brainwashed into killing, they are clearly victims.
I got my evidence from the testimony by Tom Malinowski. Some may think that child soldiers are guilty and should be punished, but it turns out most of them are forced or left with no choice but to become a soldier.
In the same article Tom states, kids sometimes have their family killed and they are left with no choice but to join the military because they will be provided with food and water. As stated earlier, these children get their arms or legs cut off, or even killed if they refuse to join the army. From the article “The Challenges of the African Criminal Court in Prosecuting Child Soldiers” Also, these children in war are under the age of 15 and it’s a lot easier to bribe a kid than an adult, kids are impressionable. To be fair, there are some cases where kids do join just because they want to kill. It is only under those circumstances where the kids are criminals, however the majority are definitely victims. …show more content…
While it may be true that if the children don’t get prosecuted they won’t know what they’re doing wrong because they aren’t getting in trouble.
Nevertheless it states in the article “The Challenges of the African Criminal Court in Prosecuting Child Soldiers”, that children are forced into fighting, drugged, and made to believe that they will be killed if they don’t fight.
In conclusion, I think that the child soldiers are victims due to all the evidence stated above. I feel strongly that they should be given a second chance to rehabilitated. They should be helped for a fresh start at a new life, and not
punished.
I got my evidence from the testimony by Tom Malinowski. Some may think that child soldiers are guilty and should be punished, but it turns out most of them are forced or left with no choice but to become a soldier.
In the same article Tom states, kids sometimes have their family killed and they are left with no choice but to join the military because they will be provided with food and water. As stated earlier, these children get their arms or legs cut off, or even killed if they refuse to join the army. From the article “The Challenges of the African Criminal Court in Prosecuting Child Soldiers” Also, these children in war are under the age of 15 and it’s a lot easier to bribe a kid than an adult, kids are impressionable. To be fair, there are some cases where kids do join just because they want to kill. It is only under those circumstances where the kids are criminals, however the majority are definitely victims. …show more content…
While it may be true that if the children don’t get prosecuted they won’t know what they’re doing wrong because they aren’t getting in trouble.
Nevertheless it states in the article “The Challenges of the African Criminal Court in Prosecuting Child Soldiers”, that children are forced into fighting, drugged, and made to believe that they will be killed if they don’t fight.
In conclusion, I think that the child soldiers are victims due to all the evidence stated above. I feel strongly that they should be given a second chance to rehabilitated. They should be helped for a fresh start at a new life, and not
punished.