Child Soldiers
Uganda’s Use of Child Soldiers
Over 300,000 child soldiers exist in the world today. These aren’t just children. In many cases, they are the future of their countries. They are the connections from one family to the next. They are the hopes and dreams of one entire generation. They are the children of war, and they are dying.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Psychological Impacts on Child Soldiers
A child’s innocence is one of the most precious and fragile things in the world, and while most children around the world go through a gradual process, child soldiers have not only their innocence, but their entire childhood stolen away from them. One day, a boy is splashing in the river, and three days later, he is killing men with a machine gun.
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The war in northern Uganda has been called the most neglected humanitarian emergency in the world today. For the past 23 years, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and the Government of Uganda (GoU) have been waging a war that has left nearly two million innocent civilians caught in the middle.
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The Ugandan army is struggling to fight an army of children, forced into fighting against their will. These are people like us, children like our own. And yet so many people in the UK and other western nations are not even aware of the situation.
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