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    Children in

    Battle
    Article by: Sydney Sheaffer

    he sound of machine guns going off

    outside the building. The horror on the


    childrens faces as they experience the
    torture that they have to face just to be able
    to survive. Hearing the agonizing screams
    coming from the children is heartbreaking.
    Getting
    yelled at
    for not
    killing one
    of your
    family
    members?
    Being
    forced to
    do things
    that you
    dont want
    to do and not having a say in anything. All
    of this pressure is put upon a child in the war
    who is called a child soldier.

    government to do to these helpless kids.


    Being torn away from family, and not
    knowing when you could possibly come
    back is frightening.
    Being injured and having a slim
    chance of surviving makes me scared for the
    children myself. Even from participating a
    couple times in battle, overtime illnesses can
    develop or even worse, severe deformations
    related to their military (Williams). The
    government chooses the children over the
    adults because their brains and emotions are
    immature. Theyre easy to recruit,
    indoctrinate and coerce. Another reason why
    they choose the children instead of the
    adults is because they dont always
    understand the consequences of the battle
    field so therefore they take in the young
    ones (soldiers).
    Girls and boys have to work together
    to be able to have a chance of surviving.
    Without having each other for help, who
    knows where they could end up (video).
    Basically the children are working together
    on this but they have to because they dont
    have a say in any of it.

    Finding a Solution
    Important Details
    Becoming or already being an experienced
    child soldier in the war is very exhausting.
    Children as young as eight years old are
    risking their loves to benefit others by
    killing people. Possibly their own family?
    That is completely wrong for the

    Over the years people have been trying to


    put together groups to help collect money to
    find a solution to child soldiering.
    Organizations like the United Movement to
    end child soldiering (UMECS). In addition,
    a Treaty called the Optional Protocol to the
    Convention on the rights of the child on the

    involvement of children in armed conflict


    (OPAC).
    During this time, the government
    took children as young as eight years old all
    the way up to age seventeen into battle. Not
    knowing what the outcome could be towards
    yourself and wondering why youre doing
    this is even worse and the kids must be so
    confused about it. Theyre not just there for
    some easy job, theyre there for an intense
    job including using machine guns to kills
    thousands of people all the time (Barbara).
    Nations all over that have taken these
    children are being affected by suffering
    social and economic consequences and it
    might continue on for decades or even
    generations (soldiers)

    Where its Occurring


    Most of these soldiers can be found in
    Africa, Angola, the central African republic,
    Chad, the Democratic republic of Congo,
    Liberia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia,
    Sudan, and Uganda all use or have used
    child soldiers (soldiers).
    During the war its very hard to find
    shelter anymore because
    everyones running around
    shooting and its hard to see.
    Wherever you can find a
    spot to hide theyll take it.
    Being away from your
    family for that long and
    maybe not coming back or
    having to stay longer and
    killing them is the most

    tragic thing that could happen to someone


    during that time. The kids have to go
    through multiple evaluations to see if they
    can withstand the situations that theyd be
    placed in. All together, this is a extremely
    dangerous situation and we all need to come
    together to find a solution to this gruesome
    law. Child soldiering is truly a battle to
    survive (soldiers).

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