Child Soldiers

All around the world, innocent children are being taken from their families and are being turned into deadly weapons.  ‘Warlords’ are forcing young children to become child soldiers.  Many are taken from their schools and beds and are brainwashed after seeing their loved ones murdered.  They join the militias with their best wish to survive.  After they are in militias, many are drugged and sent of into war to kill.  A lot of the child soldiers as young as eight are off to fight and their guns are bigger then they are.  As the world continues to grow this problem is growing as well.  There are over 250,000 child soldiers and the number continues to get bigger each day.

 

I think ‘Blood Diamond’ did a great job showing how child soldiers are brutally turned into killers.  In the movie, Dia was an excellent student, but his whole world was turned upside down when he was taken from his family.  He was turned against his people and almost killed his father. 

 

I think it is wrong how militias of child soldiers invade refugee camps, open fire, kill so a lot of people, and don’t seem to care that they have just taken someone’s life.  As young as they are, they probably don’t realize they are doing anything wrong because that is what they were taught to do.  I think ‘warlords’ are horrible people for taking small innocent children from their families and torturing them the way they do.   

        

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