language arts - child soldiers 1

  This little girl is clearly a victim, she did not choose to be in the middle of a war zone, the child thinks she is protecting her country by fighting, she might have killed and acted as somebody else but as you can see in the picture she is traumatized and she is scared literally for her life, she does not look proud for what she has done in the picture, she does not look victorious for killing and for pretending to be somebody else, she most likely was born to this war, war is all she is used to, there is nothing else to look up to, maybe even nobody to look up to. She could be forced to fight, what if she does not want to be a part of all this and there is not enough people fighting the war and she was forced to join even if she didn't want to, if the war or when the war finishes you cannot punish her from something either she was born into or forced to do, war is all she knows, she does not know what peace  is like.-

Armed and Underage article

this article is so disappointing and upsetting to know that torture like this still happens that its still going on . the children are being forced to kill, how they do NOT have a choice in this situation they either kill or get killed it shocks me. Girls are being sexually abused and getting raped, in countries with poverty and hunger,  parents sell their children in exchange for food. it shocks me how 200,000 children worldwide are being used as child soldiers by force, these children know nothing but war, they are born into war and maybe even never experienced peace before, the article shows how children are getting taken away from their parents by force to be working in the military in ages of 12, 9 even. The article points out how child soldiers is not a new problem and it has been going on since the 1980's, this little boy Awil's parents have abandoned him and left to Yemen leaving him in the Warzone, Awil is so used to war he is starting to enjoy the use of guns, some of the reasons child soldiers are being forced is because they are loyal and they dont expect to be paid and how kids can easily be brainwashed.