Children deserve the chance to grow up and go to school. They don't need to learn how to use a gun at the young age of six years old. Why are we letting children fight the battles of the adults? The wars that we started. These kids are caught in between it and forced to solve the problems that we create! I ask you is that right?!
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About me: When Rebels attack the small villages they leave no adults alive and steal the children away from their families. Most child soldiers are either abducted this way or forcabley recruited with threats of death hung over their heads. World-wide more than half a million children under the age of 18 have been recruited into government armed forces, paramilitaries, civil militia and a wide variety of non-state armed groups in more than 85 countries. At any giving time, 300,000 of these children are fighting as soldiers with the government armed forces or armed political groups. New weapons have been developed that are now lightweight and easy to fire therefore children are more easily armed and get less then minimal amount of training needed.
Once "recruited" these children, many younger than 10 years old, will witness and participate in the acts of unbelievable violence which is often against their own families or communities.They are exposed to the worst and the most horrible suffering both psychological and physical. They are easily manipulated and encouraged to commit terrible acts of brutality which they are often unable to comprehend. Many of the girls that are taken by the rebels are expected to provide sexual services as well as risk their lives to fight.
"When the mayi-mayi attacked my village, we all ran. In our flight, the soldiers captured all the girls, even the very young. Once with the soldiers, you were forced tp "marry" one of the soldiers. Whether he was as old as your father or young, bad or nice, you had to accept. If you refused, the would kill you. This happened to one of my frineds. They would slaughter people like chickens. They would not even bury the bodies the slaugtered...I even saw a girl who refused to be "married" being tortured..." -Jasmine, a 16 year-old girl who wsa recruited by the mayi-mayi armed group in South Kivu when she was 12. She now has a four-month-old baby.
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Northern Uganda-- "The worst place in the world to be a child today."
by Christina
As the sun begins to set over Northern Uganda, a spine-chilling sense of urgency spreads like a whispering ghost's haunting breath stirring fear throughout rural villages. Children quickly leave the comfort of home to take part in what has become a nightly trek to avoid torture at the merciless hands of ruthless rebels.
The 'night walkers' travel for miles by foot to sleep in streets or cages in hopes of avoiding kidnapping raids conducted by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). What starts as a few children trekking into town quickly becomes hundreds, then thousands of little bare feet scrambling to reach relative safety before the last sliver of light fades into absolute darkness. Up to 8,000 children have not slept in their own beds one single night for more than a year. As helpless young souls are abducted from their homes underneath the blanket of nocturnal skies, their futures and innocence are stolen along with their fragile bodies. Blaming rebel and government forces for trapping populations in a nightmare of terror, disease and death, a former UN representative calls Northern Uganda the worst place in the world to be a child today.
Known as the Pearl of Africa, Uganda is plagued by a triple scourge of war, AIDS and poverty. For twenty years, the LRA has been abducting and terrorizing children, resulting in at least 1.4 million displaced people. Approximately 200 Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps provide little security for inhabitants as they battle constant threats and squalid conditions for survival. Trademarks of the LRA include the mutilation of victims, looting and burning of villages, rape and sexual slavery. Notorious for setting fire to camps that shelter vulnerable communities, the calculating rebels destroy the victims' only protection of walls made with mud and straw. As even relative security has long been a non-existent luxury to the people of Northern Uganda, physical and sexual violence against women and children has become another twisted element to the widespread suffering within these camps.
Joseph Kony, leader of the LRA, seeks to rule Uganda according to the Bible's Ten Commandments. Having kidnapped and forced as many as 30,000 children to work as soldiers or sex slaves, LRA rebels are currently scattered throughout Northern Uganda, Southern Sudan and Eastern Congo. Erin Patrick of the Migration Policy Institute describes the LRA as 'a mysterious, violent insurgency formed and led by a man who claims God-like powers.'
The International Criminal Court issued warrants for Kony and other top LRA commanders for crimes against humanity in October 2005, however the violence continues as LRA leaders have yet to be apprehended. In fact, the LRA's response was to escalate attacks against non-governmental organizations in order to block their victims from receiving humanitarian assistance.
Beyond the terror and violent conflict, children and families battle daily against grinding poverty- trapped in a crippling cycle of hunger, illness and poor education.
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