Everything started out as a nice, relaxing day as I walked through my new surroundings, studying the culture of the area, due to this being a vacation where I could hopefully learn more about the world. The people seemed nice, the scenery looked beautiful and things just appeared to be pretty normal, until I finally walked upon a factory, that also taught me a lot about the world, but not in the way I had hoped. There happened to be windows so I decided to look through when I see a bunch of small children working on the items being sold, exhaustion running all throughout their bodies, as a man just sits there observing a job well done. Not only were the children suffering on the outside, but their minds were most likely going to be greatly …show more content…
The rebels have used boys and girls as combatants and spies, and to plant mines.” As stated, thousands of kids are fighting in rebel groups and they use the children accordingly to do whatever jobs they needed to do to win the war. This supports the claim that humanitarian problems hurt people mentally and physically because the physical distress being thrown upon these children is that they have to risk their lives being spies, which can, in time, get them killed if they are caught spying by their enemies, and when the kids have to plant mines, that could lacerate their skin, or if a bomb were to go off when placing the mine, that could leave them permanently …show more content…
The second reason why the claim holds true is because the problem of genocide causes many people to either get killed or have to reinvent their entire lives. As I recall back to my time when I past by the factory where children were doing hard labor, I was trying to think back to other times in the world where other problems involving the welfare of humans, but I realized that no matter what happens, someone will always get hurt, because someone can die, or they can drive themselves insane due to the amount of hatred they have for a place. Consequently, without having anyone know about the mental and physical effects of humanitarian problems, the problems might never be addressed, which means the past will just always repeat itself, and that alone could potentially drive someone crazy. To preclude anymore people from hurting themselves in the inside or on the outside, there should just be no more events that result in the killings of people, but because that it almost impossible, the least that could happen as a solution to this problem would be to try and make sure child laws aren’t being broken, or illegal crimes aren’t going
Nevertheless, the corrupt nature if the rebels proved that to be impossible and throughout the war they burned and raided villages, murdered and raped civilians, and they recruited boy soldiers because as a child they are very prone to manipulation because of the circumstances and because people are more reluctant to shoot a child.
Austin Sroczenski Mr. McDowell English A 10/4/15 A Long Way From Innocence In 1933, unknown to many parts of the world, Sierra Leone was in the middle of an internal war. As this brutal war continued on, both the Sierra Leone government, and the Revolutionary United Front began to use children as soldiers to fight this battle. The children used in combat are deceived greatly by army generals, in order to turn them into killers.
There is a problem in the world and something needs to be done of it. There are children, primarily in Africa, that are forced to massacre innocent men and women. These kids are called child soldiers. Child soldiers are kids who are associated in war. A popular book about child soldier is an autobiography by Ishmael Beah called A Long Way Gone.
From 1991 to 2002 Sierra Leone was terrorized by a civil war of corruption and brutality; the belligerents of such atrocities, the Sierra Leone Army (SLA) and the Revolutionary United Front (RUF). This book review will analyze the story of Ishmael Beah, an eyewitness to and participant in the civil war. What once went virtually unnoticed by the outside world, is now a subject of major debates, the use of child soldiers. In Sierra Leone child soldiers were used widespread and were heavily manipulated; children had no choice but to submit to either the SLA or RUF and fight for causes they did not necessarily support. Sadly, Ishmael was one of those children, he was forced to either join the SLA or be killed by the RUF while unwillingly leaving
For child war victims like Sourdi, who lived in a war zone until she was nine years old, it is a wonder if there can ever be an end to the war. The trauma that children endure in a war zone is enough to last a lifetime. Not only are they
In 1944, a Polish-Jewish lawyer came up with the word, “genocide.” However, even seventy-five years later, many people still debate what factors go into making a genocide. Of course, there is mass murder, mistreatment of large groups of people, and difficult life conditions. Take the Cambodian Genocide, for example. People were tortured and killed so much during this genocide that at one of the death camps, “as few as 12 managed to survive” (Pierpaoli).
In the world today, there is more than 25 countries who still actively use children in warfare. Child soldiers are human beings under the age of 18 who participate in military actions. They are evidently cheaper to maintain and to train than adult soldiers. They are also more loyal and obedient because the young respect their elders. It has been noted that estimately, 300 thousand children were recruited to fight and perform in war (Child Soldiers.)
Child soldiers have been a major issue in countries all over the world for a very long time. For example, Afghanistan is recruiting children to become a part of the Taliban, one of the largest terrorist groups in the country. A theme presented by Ishmael Beah in the book A Long Way Gone: memoirs of a boy soldier is that when all is lost, there is always hope. He went through brutal drugs and a dark childhood while he was in a civil war but he still was able to push through it and find happiness.
Many young children under aged have been taken in by the government. They are being held captive tell they are drugged enough and brainwashed to go out and kill or to be killed. They are forced to train to kill under the influence of drugs and they are hardly aware of what they or doing. Child soldiers should be given amnesty because of the absents of their minds and them not being able to process what they are doing. These children are often seen as targets because they are under aged and not able to take responsibility for their actions so they are targeted to be able to kill without punishment.
How would you feel if you were recruited as a soldier during war? Since 2001, the participation of child soldiers has been reported in 21 on-going or recent armed conflicts in almost every region of the world. The importance of this is portrayed in Ishmael Beah’s memoir A Long Way Gone. The author believes that innocent kids should not be selected to fight as soldiers, lose their innocence killing people, witnessing violent scenes and suffer because of war.
Annotated Bibliography Beah, Ishmael. A Long Way Gone. N.p., n.d. PDF file. A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah is a book that retells his own experiences as a child soldier.
There are thousands of child soldiers in the world today. These children are stripped from their homes and sent to fight with people twice their age. Many haven’t even had their 11th birthday yet. Although some people say that child soldiers should not be granted amnesty, evidence shows that these children do deserve amnesty, except in cases when the former soldiers show violent behavior after war because children are forced to commit acts of violence and are force addicted to illegal substances so they won’t want to leave.
“The rise of genocide coincides with the rise of the modern political state, and every single one of these events is inconceivable without the
Assignment page Video Where many children all over the world merrily and freely live under the protection of the law, for others, this is a distant reality, they live in a world where they’re battling poverty, stripped of their childhood and basic human rights are expunged, they’re the innocent victims of conflict, and war is made to seem their one and only duty, not to mention that these are children no more than 10 years of age. They are put into a situation where it’s to kill or be killed. The United Nations defines a child soldier as, “Any person under 18 years of age who is part of any kind of regular or irregular armed force or armed group in any capacity.” Since the past 15 years, child soldiers are being used in almost every region of the world. Unlike most children, who go to school, they’re abducted from their families and forced into becoming a child soldier, where living conditions are beyond imaginable.
For several decades various cultures have been rich with history and traditions that transcended time. However these cultures go through very dark times such as genocide. Genocide is the deliberate killing of a large group of people, specifically those of a particular ethnic group or nation. On one hand neutrality is a positive alternative of genocide because if a country stays neutral, that country would likely have peace. On the other hand being a bystander or being neutral is letting thousands of innocent lives die at your hands.