Child Soldiers Deserve Amnesty Essay
Child soldiers are a huge problem in the world. Child soldiers are kids who are under the age of 18. Not all of them fight in war but some are used as cooks, suicide bombers, messengers, spies, human shields, guard prisoners, domestic servants and almost always used for sexual purposes. Anyone over the age of 16 who has killed someone in war, does not deserve amnesty, but those who have not killed anyone in any age deserve amnesty. A reason why people over the age of 16 do not deserve amnesty is because they are old already basically already young adults and know what they’re doing. If they go out in the world with this bad of a background story and what they’ve came from with all the things in the war who knows what they would do out
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It is different for those kids who are under that age, They are abducted, abducted from their own homes at night, abducted right out of school, soldiers would surround the school go in and kill or hurt the teacher and take kids. They also will also go telling kids they will go on an adventure and end up in a war. A 13 year old girl said “At the age of 13 I joined the student movement, I had a dream to be able to contribute many things so children would not be hungry, When i arrived i found out that girls were obliged to have several sexual relations and they abused me, they trampled my human dignity and above all they did not understand i was a child and had rights.” With that quote it says when kids are not abducted but when they join a “group” for the good they get something out of the unexpected.
In some countries they use something called “Brown Brown” which is a mixture of gunpowder and cocaine they would be slit into their wrist or into the temple in their head. A boy described it like “Gunpowder gives you more energy like with the desire to kill the troops that are passing in front of you, you say to yourself i hope they come my way and you load op and you shoot off and you feel more capable with better
It is different for those kids who are under that age, They are abducted, abducted from their own homes at night, abducted right out of school, soldiers would surround the school go in and kill or hurt the teacher and take kids. They also will also go telling kids they will go on an adventure and end up in a war. A 13 year old girl said “At the age of 13 I joined the student movement, I had a dream to be able to contribute many things so children would not be hungry, When i arrived i found out that girls were obliged to have several sexual relations and they abused me, they trampled my human dignity and above all they did not understand i was a child and had rights.” With that quote it says when kids are not abducted but when they join a “group” for the good they get something out of the unexpected.
In some countries they use something called “Brown Brown” which is a mixture of gunpowder and cocaine they would be slit into their wrist or into the temple in their head. A boy described it like “Gunpowder gives you more energy like with the desire to kill the troops that are passing in front of you, you say to yourself i hope they come my way and you load op and you shoot off and you feel more capable with better