The Truth Behind the Treacherous lives of Child Soldiers I bet you weren’t aware that there are kids from all over the world that are caged up. Their voices are unheard. They are being taken captive from their homes. The fact that these kids are being forced to be soldiers between the ages of five and thirteen is a terrible thought to have, but it sadly is the reality. Many of the child victims that are recruited, are from all around the world such as places like, Democratic Republic of Congo, Mexico, Myanmar, Syria, Central African Republic, Sudan, South Sudan, and Colombia. For this reason, every single one of these children are victims because they are being brain washed, they are being taken from their homes, they are not given any choices when they are fighting, and, their leaders keep them after war. These kids are affected each and every day, but still they continue to be forced to do terrible things. First and foremost, all of these children should be considered victims to everyone because, they are mentally being brainwashed and physically forced to harm others by older soldiers. The children will then follow the orders without the slightest thought of the crime they are committing. Child Soldiers articles’ states that “I have discovered that child soldiers are often forced into fighting through false promises. They are also forced into fighting through drugs and alcohol. Children are brainwashed to the point where they would rather not escape from the horror unraveling around them." This evidence given in the article shows the true treatment of these soldiers as they are being forced to do horrendous things by brainwashing, the use of drugs, alcohol and who knows what else. Next, they are victims of this major problem because they aren’t fully developed. They are very young, not very stable, mentally or physically, and they don’t have enough knowledge about really anything, but yet, they are still forced to go to work, the article even says “they may not have thought carefully about their decision.” It is very embarrassing to think that people will throw these young kids under the bus because of what they are being forced to do. Most of the time they are so young they don’t even apprehend what crimes they are committing. Therefore they keep doing what the leader tells them to do because they are scared to be punished for going against their word, or the brainwashing and drugs has gotten to them, and they think that these crimes are okay to commit. Emmanuel Jal, a past child soldier, stated that “I didn’t have a life as a child. In five years as a fighting boy, what was in my heart was to kill as many muslims as possible." As a child all he knew was that he needed to get his job done and please his sergeant no matter what it meant, and he always had the chance of being killed if he did the wrong thing. Now some may argue, that it shouldn’t matter how old these kids are, they should now right from wrong. But that is not the real answer because they are being brainwashed which changes how they think of everything. In the article The article states, states that “if a child under the age of 15 is considered too young to fight, then he or she must also be considered too young to be held criminally responsible for serious violations…” This statement is explaining, it doesn’t matter how old they are, the truth is, that no matter your age, if you are brainwashed you are going to look at things completely differently, and these leaders trick the kids into thinking that slaughtering people and many other things is okay. All in all, at the end of the day there are millions and millions of young kids that are being taught to kill and are out for blood. This is not right kids should be able to do what most kids do, play outside, hang out with friends, but instead they are stripped of their culture, taken from the families, and having their brains altered to do whatever is requested upon them. They don’t understand what they are doing and how it can affect people that are innocent. These kids are being taken from their homes and nobody can do anything about it either. This needs to be stopped, and soon.
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