Uganda
This report will examine the child soldier situation in Uganda. Child abuse is strongly present in Uganda. The act of using child soldiers to protect your beliefs or a country is considered a strong reprehensible form of child abuse. Presently in Uganda, there are approximately 30,000 child soldiers. These children are abducted from their homes and schools to become child soldiers. These child soldiers mutate other people’s faces and are commanded to kill their own parents. They are forced to commit crimes making them a victim and a victimizer. There are clearly numerous injustices taking place in Uganda with respect to the use of child soldiers. For instance, Joseph Kony is now a household name in most homes in North America, who was made famous in 2012 by Jason Russel and Invisible Children. He is the most known offender for use of child soldiers since 1986. In 1987, Joseph Kony formed the Lord’s Resistance Army, L.R.A. The L.R.A started off as a resistance army to overthrow the Uganda government. Joseph Kony took control of the L.R.A and decided to focus more on gaining strength. The army began to massacre villages to capture the child able to carry and shoot guns. The other villagers were brutally tortured by getting there ears, lips and tongues cut off sending a message to the country. These child soldiers are used as sex slaves, made to work as slaves and become a soldier in the growing L.R.A. Joseph has been condoning this behaviour for approximately 20 years but the act of child soldiers in Uganda has been on going for a much longer period of time. Some of the children who become child soldiers attempt to run free. These children are called the “night walkers”. These “night walkers” are children who attempt to escape the L.R.A’s control by running during the night and hiding during the day. Many children in Uganda are having their universal human rights denied. In 2005, world leaders came together, and anonymously voted to uphold
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