Argumentative Essay On Forced Child Soldiers

Children are dying left and right, fighting a fight they shouldn’t even dream of fighting. Children no older than the age of eight are bearing arms, carrying guns, and becoming suicide bombers. What’s worse is when that child is expected to accomplish these tasks without complaining, without hesitating, they expect children to be “killing machines”. That’s the kind of life a Forced Child soldier lives. This is also considered as a type of slavery since the child is forced into this field of work. You may think that child soldiers are only located in places that are undergoing some sort of conflict. But countries such as Russia are also recruiting children for military purposes. They have a club in Russia where five-year olds are learning how

Children are sold to the military or rebel groups to be used as soldiers, in this case they are mostly used as suicide bombers. That is why I urge the governments of these countries to help the children. These children could be sold by kidnappers, auctioneers, or even their own parents. No one seems to take notice to the fact that using children for warring purposes under the age 15 is prohibited according to the international humanitarian law. Although this law exists nearly 200,00 children are kidnaped in China and sold, some of them are even sold to become soldiers. The children have no choice but to work for the people they are sold to. If militaries decide to help these children by placing them in a better environment or by returning them to their families once and only once they know that the families these children are returning to will help them. You may wonder as to where that child will go if the family itself is the source of the problem. If the family sold the child, then the only other option is to find an organization that is willing to help. I believe that after a period of time those children will be leading a healthy life, this can only happen if the child is not set out to war. If they are the mental and emotional scars they receive may be unhealable. That is why it is imperative that we protect these children before they are sent out into the nightmare we know as war. (Thornhill Ted,