Informative Essay On Child Soldiers
Child Soldiers
Children of all ages have been forced to fight in wars. Wars of all kinds, fought for different reasons, but if you look back on all of them you’ll see children. They may or may not know why they are fighting; they simply do as they’re told. Everywhere around the world, there is always a war of some kind going on. This global issue needs to be resolved so that children of all ages don’t end up being on the battlefield. A child defines someone who shouldn’t be involved in warfare. In the last decade alone there has been an upwards of two million children that have died due to war (Sutten-Redner). This outstanding number raises a huge red flag something needs to be done to stop this from happening. Whether these children were involved or not, they didn’t need to die. Even though so many children’s lives have been taken due to war; the remaining children that have been affected physically and psychologically require long-term recovering (Sutten-Redner). The international minimum age for children in armed conflict is 15 years old. In my honest opinion this is unacceptable and the fact that children even younger than that go to war is hard to stomach. Not every child entering the fighting force is voluntary; some are …show more content…
As stated by Jane Stutton-Redner in her article Children In A World of Violence, “Its leaders have been known to kidnap thousands of children, some as young as 8, from their homes and schools. They beat and abuse their captives into submission and turn them into merciless killers, fighting against the Ugandan government or in neighboring Sudan.” This heart wrenching fact is hard to let settle in knowing that something like this can happen in today’s world. The trauma inflicted upon these children doesn’t end after the war is over; Killing becomes the only thing they are good at and aren’t fit for everyday life in
Children of all ages have been forced to fight in wars. Wars of all kinds, fought for different reasons, but if you look back on all of them you’ll see children. They may or may not know why they are fighting; they simply do as they’re told. Everywhere around the world, there is always a war of some kind going on. This global issue needs to be resolved so that children of all ages don’t end up being on the battlefield. A child defines someone who shouldn’t be involved in warfare. In the last decade alone there has been an upwards of two million children that have died due to war (Sutten-Redner). This outstanding number raises a huge red flag something needs to be done to stop this from happening. Whether these children were involved or not, they didn’t need to die. Even though so many children’s lives have been taken due to war; the remaining children that have been affected physically and psychologically require long-term recovering (Sutten-Redner). The international minimum age for children in armed conflict is 15 years old. In my honest opinion this is unacceptable and the fact that children even younger than that go to war is hard to stomach. Not every child entering the fighting force is voluntary; some are …show more content…
As stated by Jane Stutton-Redner in her article Children In A World of Violence, “Its leaders have been known to kidnap thousands of children, some as young as 8, from their homes and schools. They beat and abuse their captives into submission and turn them into merciless killers, fighting against the Ugandan government or in neighboring Sudan.” This heart wrenching fact is hard to let settle in knowing that something like this can happen in today’s world. The trauma inflicted upon these children doesn’t end after the war is over; Killing becomes the only thing they are good at and aren’t fit for everyday life in