Words: Tools of War Words are held to a high standard. The tone in which you say a word‚ or maybe the context in which you say a word completely changes its meaning. Today‚ we use words as tools to provide information and inform others as well as a way to feel superior to others‚ but in a war time crisis words such as name calling can be the key to a killing spree. Soldiers all around the world for ages‚ since the Greek and Romans‚ have learned to use nicknames as a way to deliberately taunt
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have been especially vulnerable to being recruited‚ abducted or forced into joining armed groups for the sake of child soldiering. Around the world‚ there are more than 250‚000 child soldiers deployed in active combat today. Six million child soldiers have become disabled or displaced‚ and two million have been killed. Armed conflict imposes huge hardship on young people living in war zones. This is a problem that still exists in todays society. Most child soldiers are between the ages of fourteen
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Should Child Soldiers be prosecuted? By:Alizey Solis Period:7 Why are child soldiers forced to do things they aren’t supposed to do? These children are putting themselves at risk in the future but it’s not entirely their fault. Have you ever felt the guilt and pain they were going through during this time? Children are taken from anywhere (innocent children) taken from their families‚ and are turned into fighters but different armies.Because of this people are trying to prosecute these children
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across Africa and Asia become soldiers for a military force. They run wild through the landscape‚ gunfire clattering as they mindlessly destroy. Although they are only children‚ these actions are those of war criminals‚ and the issue of whether child soldiers should be granted amnesty has emerged. Many of these children volunteered for the fight and enjoy their power as a soldier. They see dangerous groups as their family. As a result‚ the U.N should hold these soldiers accountable for their actions
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according to human right watch. Child soldier refers to any person under the age of 18 placed in the face of war. This issue discusses the rights of children and how they shouldn’t be involved in death‚ murder or fighting‚ but instead‚ experience the innocence of being a child. Children are abducted from their homes and schools are forced to work as spies‚ cooks or guards. Girls are subjected to rape and sexual assault and given as wives to commanders. Children Soldiers obstruct the articles 5 the right
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war‚ death‚ and violence are as ordinary as going to school. Most of these children are child soldiers. The act of using child soldiers in armed combat
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Soldiers from all the different periods of time have faced the hardships of war. In history‚ there have been millions of troops. One of the soldiers to compare is Odysseus from Homer’s “The Odyssey. The other are soldiers from the second world war. In Homer’s The Odyssey‚ Odysseus experiences are similar to those of modern soldiers returning from war‚ such as the deaths of their fellow soldiers‚ the amount of time for which they left‚ and the ill treatment they faced when returning home. All soldiers
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they struggle to hold onto life.This is what child soldiers are put through almost every day. In some parts of the world‚ such as Sierra Leone. There is tremendous disputes over child soldiers. Everyday hundreds if not thousands of child soldiers are drugged‚ abused‚ and brainwashed to kill others in the battlefields of Sierra Leone and countries alike. Now after all this‚ these children are being captured by governments across the world and are being prosecuted for their crimes When you think about
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the very real life that he had to face. One day‚ Marian was captured by the SS and sent to Janowska‚ a horrific place where he endured things that would affect him for a very long time. Luckily he bumped into Simon Wiesenthal‚ a doctor that had being living in the same apartment as Marian and his friend Adek. Simon had organised for him to escape the
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Assembly QUESTION OF: Child Soldiers: demobilization‚ rehabilitation and reintegration SUBMITTED BY: Amnesty International CO-SUBMITTED BY: The Democratic Republic of the Philippines‚ Republic of South Africa and Republic of Angola THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY‚ Aware that the Coalition’s estimates over 8‚000 children were still fighting in 2005 in the nations of Côte d’Ivoire‚ Liberia‚ Sierra Leone and Guinea‚ Fully Alarmed that there are over 300‚000 child soldiers currently serving in the East
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