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
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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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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 and eighteen years old‚ although children as young as seven have been used as child soldiers. Almost all
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“In the last ten years‚ two million child soldiers have been killed‚ more than one million orphaned‚ more than six million left injured or permanently disabled‚ and more than 10 million diagnosed with psychological trauma” (Invisible Children). But that is only the beginning of this problem and it could get worse. Many young children find themselves in the army for various reasons. They commit many acts that are deemed as crimes. Some people think that they should be pardoned and some think otherwise
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were forced to kill others for whole years of your life‚ seeing the people bleed out each and every time as 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
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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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An epidemic in the world today is child soldiers. The problem with this is that they are far too young to be in war. People are debating back and forth on whether child soldiers should be forgiven for their war crimes. In certain cases the children should be given amnesty but not in all cases. The children should be given amnesty if they are forced into army‚ if they did not know any better‚ and if they were in a very tough situation. However‚ I can see why some people think they should not be granted
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Many are now asking themselves‚ should child soldiers be given amnesty or should they be prosecuted? This debate‚ on the issue of child soldiers‚ has been going on for a while now. Child soldiers are children in war under the age of 18. This means some
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any hope of achieving a beneficial outcome. Furthermore‚ when considering the above needs it does highlight how much damage child soldier’s recruitment can do to the child. All concerned should encourage further urgent work to address the causative factors such as abject poverty which is at the root of the whole child soldier process. Conclusion The entire child soldier phenomenon is a poignant process where children are being deprived of their childhood‚ denied an education and blocked from actively
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when the village burned down‚ and it was all at the hands of children. Child soldiers have been in existence for years. People believe that child soldiers should be punished for their crimes and put into jail‚ but why? Why would you put a little one in jail when they were told what they were doing was right? These minors have not been given the proper chance to live a life to the fullest of their potential. Although child soldiers have been programmed since birth‚ to be fair that just means they are
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