Friday, January 15, 2010

Child Soldiering

Child Soldering

Imagine your son or daughter with a gun fighting on the frontline or spying, how would this make you feel? In Africa, Europe, and Asia they are recruiting children for soldiers, sexual slaves, human land mine detectors and more. This is horrible because you are just taking children away from their families, friends, and an education.

Africa has already recruited 120,000 children for soldiers. That’s like making children kill an entire army or letting an army kill children. As well they capture and bring them to different provinces to train and become a warrior. What they do is, they grab them, throw them in a van, and drive them away. If the army has to retreat then the kids stay and fight. That’s like killing a kid or making him or her kill someone.

So that’s worse than them not having an education, them living in poverty or not having much money. If you want to protect your child and other children in these countries you can start a group to ban child soldering, encourage others about banning this problem, or asking your government to monitor this situation. It’s your choice. Remember it’s your son or daughter with a gun, fighting on the frontline.

By Mike G.

No comments: