Africa - child soldiers - are child soldiers always forced to become child
soldiers ?
Child soldiers are children that are soldiers. They use weapons to kill people and don't get paid . They do that in Africa every day . They do it because they are forced by the bad people that make them do that and don't even pay them . Child soldiers are mostly found in South Sudan. The children are taken to Bentiu camp. The child soldiers do not go to school and fight bad people all day and some of the night.
Child soldier are forced to become child soldiers because child soldiers are easily expendable. Also they make them work day and night and sometimes they don't let them go to school. According to unicef, when investigating child soldiers, " recently, in 25 countries ,thousands of children under the age of 16 have fought in wars. In 1988 alone , they numbered as many as 200,000." This shows that child soldiers are forced because kids under 16 don't wont to fight and it is not right for boys to be on the battlefield . The website of The Independent had an article discussing child soldiers,"They where then taken away again at night." Therefore , child soldiers are forced because they have to work at night . An investigation of child soldier recruitment reports , " child soldiers are among the thousands of refugees at Bentiu camp in south Sudan" (Burridge) . It is forced because there is thousands that are forced to be at this child soldiers camp. A study of south Sudan child soldiers recruitment, " fighting in the young nation of south Sudan has triggered a big increase in recruitment by both government and rebel forces" (Schlein). I think it is forced because they are forcing the child soldiers to fight with rebel forces. In researching south Sudan's slow response to child soldier recruitment , "soldiers pushed away mothers who tried to rescue their sons" (Patinkin). Forced because they are making the kids fight and won't let their mothers rescue them out . In researching Hundreds of children are being forced, " many of the kidnapped had been seen in a training camp" (Lizzie). This is forced because the kids that have been taken end up in the training camp. This shows that child soldiers are forced to not go to school and to fight bad people.
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