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Child Soldier

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- The majority of the world's child soldiers are involved in a variety of armed political groups. These include government-backed paramilitary groups, militias and self-defence units operating in many conflict zones. Others include armed groups opposed to central government rule, groups composed of ethnic religious and other minorities and clan-based or factional groups fighting governments and each other to defend territory and resources.
- Forcible abductions, sometimes of large numbers of children, continue to occur in some countries. Children as young as nine have been abducted and used in combat.
- Girl soldiers are frequently subjected to rape and other forms of sexual violence as well as being involved in combat and other roles. In some cases they are stigmatized by their home communities when they return
- Approximately 250,000 children under the age of 18 are thought to be fighting in conflicts around the world, and hundreds of thousands more are members of armed forces who could be sent into combat at any time.
- Over the last ten years, two million children have been killed in conflict. Over one million have been orphaned, over six million have been seriously injured or permanently disabled and over ten million have been left with serious psychological trauma.
- In the DRC, child soldiers are forced to commit the most atrocious acts of murder, acts which mentally scar them for life. Amnesty International reports that, as a 15-year-old soldier, 'Kalami' was made to 'kill a family, to cut up their bodies and eat them'. He goes on to say 'my life is lost. I have nothing to live for'
- One reason that armys, and rebels, use child soldiers is that the enemy cannot find it in themselves to kill children




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Ziphos123's avatar
"Hello! I am an African warlord who used child soldiers to maintain my drug empire, I saw your deviation and was like "wow, they put up some really good arguments" and I decided to give up my cheap soldiers that the enemy was to kind to shoot at and let them be kids" I agree with you, but I don't exactly see the point.