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“Tens of thousands of children are estimated to be recruited and used by armed groups. In 2019 alone, more than 7,740 children, some as young as six, were recruited and used as soldiers around the world, according to the United Nations. Most are recruited by non-state groups.” (Wuilbercq). There are more than seven thousand forty children that were child soldiers in twenty nineteen alone. Many of these children passed away while being in the war but the ones that didn’t could be suffering from PTSD, Drug addiction, and more. Child soldiers are used around the world, from ages seven and up. Many child soldiers after being in war suffer from psychological trauma like PTSD, drug addiction, and physical trauma. History has proven that the use of …show more content…

In the memoir, A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah, Ishmael became a child soldier at the age of twelve, after three years of being in the war Ishmael was discharged from the war and went into rehabilitation. Ishmael was showing signs of PTSD for a long time. In this passage, Beah is showing signs of PTSD by saying “I was afraid to fall asleep, but staying awake also brought back painful memories. Memories I sometimes wish I could wash away, even though I am aware that they are an important of what my life is; who I am now. “ (Beah 19). Typically when people have PTSD they have nightmares, and flashbacks. Ishmael is showing signs of both of these which shows he has PTSD. PTSD can affect people in many ways. Ishmael is showing signs of PTSD so early on in the book by the things he's experienced and seen. With the PTSD he is facing he can’t sleep. Child soldiers experience PTSD in many ways leaving them with this trauma for the rest of their lives. Some may not recover from this mental trauma which can leave them with other mental issues. Children should never have to experience war at such a young age. By banning child soldiers more children can have a childhood without having to have trauma from any war. Children should not have to have PTSD at such a young age and especially by war. Banning child soldiers can help thousands of children around the war from experiencing psychological trauma such as

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The Effects On Child Soldiers In the book, A Long Way Gone, it said, “‘Bullet wounds,’ I casually replied” (Beah 154). In the book, Beah is so mentally changed that getting shot is not even a big deal to him anymore. Most child soldiers just like him have been desensitized to these kinds of problems. Using children in war can cause them a countless amount of mental and physical pain as Beah describes in his book

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Child soldiers are captured by abuse, and life threatening situations. These situations can lead to a high population of death and withdrawals of fear. Child soldiers are forced into these situations with the threat of death due to denying serving. Life threatening situations are everyday events that happen while you are a child soldier and cause effects on children that should not be acceptable in everyday life. History has proven that the use of child soldiers should be banned internationally because soldiers are around drugs and drug abuse.

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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

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In the book “A long way gone” Ishmael Beah takes us on a journey through his rough childhood. He was 12 years old and just like other boys living in Sierra Leone at the time, at the age of 13, he became a child soldier. In his journey to escape the war. he had lost and gained people. Running from the rebels, and being taken in by villagers mistaking him and his friends for rebels, he finally made it to Yele.

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Dismissal of a Childhood More than 250,000 children have been captured and forced into a cruel war. (“Child Soldiers”). Unfortunately, the ban on child soldiers has not yet reached worldwide. There are more than multiple reasons why children should not be linked to war. The thoughts, actions, and ideas that are implanted into child soldiers' brains can be more than harmful to them for the rest of their lives.

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Ishmael has a flashback of his life in the war. In his dream he encounters a body wrapped in white bed sheets, and as he unwraps it he realizes it is his own face he is looking at. He then awakens, sweating and on the ground. He says, “I was afraid to fall asleep, but staying awake also brought back painful memories” (Beah 19). Even being in a different country cannot take away the hell that Ishmael has been through.

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Many of the child soldiers who were able to leave the war had a tremendous amount of problems. “But at night some of us would wake up from nightmares, sweating, screaming, and punching our own heads to drive out the images that continued to torment us even when we were no longer asleep.” (148) The child soldiers who were rescued and sent to one of the rehabilitation centers still had the same mentality. They were still addicted to drugs, and to killing.

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These child soldiers are also usually brainwashed and forced to take drugs before committing violence. If child soldiers are “fixed,” they shouldn’t be punished or judged because of their acts as a child soldier. There are many reasons supporting that former child soldiers should be granted amnesty, as long as they prove that they are cured and will not continue to be violent. To begin with, child soldiers are often forced into the position of being a child soldier, and are also forced to be violent. ”Most children are forcibly recruited.”

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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.

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Also, in a interview on The Hour by former child soldier Ishmael Beah he says, “I will never be able to forget any of what happened to me... I still have nightmares, I still have flashbacks, but I know I’m not there I’m here and this healing still continues.” Beah talks about how the experience of being in war as a child is unforgettable in a negative way. He says he still has nightmares and flashbacks and constantly reminds himself that it is over and he is not in war anymore and therefore he continues to heal. If child soldiers are prosecuted, though, and thrown into jail, they have no happy reality to return back

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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.

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