Armed And Underaged Jeffrey Gettleman Analysis

Jeffrey stated that “More than 200,000 children worldwide are still used as child soldiers.” This trend is reportedly present mostly in Africa, as generals need to be able to two people for every person that they lose. Moreover, it’s easy to teach kids to something that they can’t tell is right from wrong. After being trained these newly made warriors are trained to kill while being completely stoned or high on a cocaine-gunpowder mix that is given as a drug to them. The fault does not fall upon those trained to kill, but the trainees that put them up to such an awful

Children aren’t mature enough to make life or death decisions. All child soldiers should have a chance to be forgiven. “Others enlist ‘voluntarily’, usually because they see few alternatives.” ("From Cradle to War." Amnesty International. Amnesty International USA, Web. 3 May 2016.) Children aren’t wise enough to make the decision, and deserve a chance to be forgiven, just like an immigrant has a chance to become a citizen. And even though once someone is killed, they are permanently dead, the children who kill don’t really know what they’re

One time my friends and I had a “great idea” we were going to hide in the bathroom to escape our classes. But turns out we had a test, and we all failed, so bad things came with that idea. In the articles, “Armed and Underage” by Jeffrey Gettleman and “The Charge: Genocide” by Lydia Polgreen, now others may think differently, but the claim can be made that bad things come from war, like child soldiers and genocide. With this claim, i have found the following evidence.

Are you aware that right now, at this very moment, there is a group of young boys ages 8-13 who are clenching a gun being ordered to kill against their will? It’s understood that others opinions about the dangers of child soldiers being free are only because they don’t want to risk anything but, isn’t life all about taking risks? You risk your life leaving the house, and breathing. Also, countries should not prosecute child soldiers for the crimes they committed during wartime. There also should not be an international minimum age of criminal responsibility for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Here are three reasons why they should not be prosecuted or held responsible. Also that there should not be an age limit. One. Children are afraid, young, and clueless. Two. Children are 99.99% of the time drugged, forced, and brainwashed. “Children are often brainwashed and drugged before they are forced to fight. Their vulnerability can allow warlords to make them into cold-blooded killers” (O'Neill 1 ). Three. Children are independent, lonesome, and they want/need a family. One that gives them love.

War, in and of itself, is an atrocity, but it becomes even more abhorrent when children are pulled into the conflict. Unfortunately, some military groups find children useful in the war effort. The wars these children are forced to be part of often leave wounds--both psychological and physical, but these kids can be healed, at least to an extent, and rehabilitated. Children are often used in war because it is easy and efficient to use them as compared to their adult counterparts. For one, children are easy to control, coerce, and indoctrinate.

Taking advantage of someone is wrong and a sign of weakness. According to “Armed & Underage” by Jeffrey Gettleman it states, “...human-rights experts estimate that more than 200,000 children worldwide are still being used as combatants, usually against their will.” These kids are being taken and put into combat because people know kids won’t fight back. They will do whatever you say because they are terrified and have no clue what you are going to do to them. Instead of taking adults, they take children because they are easier targets which is wrong. Taking an easier target tells me you are weak because you don’t have the strength to tell an adult that you need help fighting in a war. The text also states, “Many are subjected to sexual abuse,

This is also is persuading readers to make a stand for these children and join the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers. This would make readers join the movement to stop countries from using children as soldiers to fight in their conflicts/wars. Another quote from “Armed & Underage” is “He now lives with other government soldiers in a filthy house littered with cigarette boxes and smelly clothes. Awil doesn't know exactly how old he is, but his commander says he's around 12.” The quote is showing that children are being put in different nasty environments where there are cigarettes everywhere and they have to wear the same dirty and smelly clothes each day as they cannot get new ones because they cannot pay for them and shows that children are experiencing the true colors of war. This relates back to the claim that “Armed & Underage” creates a more persuasive argument about why children should not be enlisting into the military

These kids are in no condition for fighting in armed rebel groups but the numbers of these kids are starting to go up. “Over 8,000 children are fighting in armed rebel groups, battling the U.S-backed government.” They are taught to kill and are forced to think that killing is a good thing, plus, the guns they are supposed to use are even heavier than most of these kids, so that clearly shows they shouldn't be using them. These child soldiers need to be put in rehabilitation instead of being put in prison, they are being forced to take drugs, they are brainwashed into thinking

First off, child soldiers are held against their will to do dangerous tasks that they have no say in. In an article interviewing Ishmael Beah, a former child soldier, he states, "Somebody being shot in front of you, or you yourself shooting somebody became just like drinking a glass of water. Children who refused to fight, kill or showed any weakness were ruthlessly dealt with.”

“Children play soldiers and that makes since, but why do soldiers play children?” Child soldiers are not responsible for their actions. Some soldiers were forced into fighting and having very little choice over whether or not what they do. The recruiters of child soldiers also use drugs and alcohol to make them compliant and to enable them to commit acts they would not ordinarily commit. Therefore they should not be held responsible for actions they were forced to commit.

Give a Boy a Gun is a novel by author Todd Strasser. In this novel, Brendan Lawlor and Gary Searle are two boys that attend Middletown High School. Brendan Lawlor moves to Middletown from Springfield in the middle of his ninth grade year. While Brendan was a jock and popular in his previous school, his life changed when he came to a new town and a new school. Brendan becomes friends with Gary Searle, who is also an outcast at Middletown High School. Brendan noticed that he has been struggling beside Gary with the other kids at school teasing them, making fun of them, and treating them bad. As the boys continue through high school, they are divided between the popular kids and them. Brendan and Gary continue with the bullying throughout

“Children are cheaper and expendable in an expensive war-scenario” (de Silva 278). Countries are using children in military type spaces because they are easily taught to do tasks. They are thought to be braver than adults, because they are too young to know the danger that is waiting for them around the corner. Using children in the military should be outlawed everywhere, because it is wrong to make other people solve your problems using children. Having a child soldier is an obvious crime, but some people don't see it that way.

Throughout the world children younger than 18 are being enlisted into the armed forces to fight while suffering through multiple abuses from their commanders. Children living in areas and countries that are at war are

Forcing children to be soldiers is terrible. Thousands of kids are bought or even kidnapped into joining the country’s army. Once they are handed a dangerous weapon and drugged, they are no longer in control of their actions. Young children who are forced into war should not be prosecuted. Making children into child soldiers should be illegal. Many children are still soldiers today.

A child soldier is a person who serves in a military and is under the age of 18. Should they be prosecuted for the crimes they have committed? Before the question is answered this though the issue at hand must be explained. Imagine a child born in a country of war, and their parents might have to sell them to an army, maybe they die and that’s the only place they can go, or maybe they take he/she from their home to serve their country. Now they are angry, frustrated, and wanting revenge. Their commander soon becomes like a father the boys and girls around them like siblings, and all they can to do is make their new family proud; they are sacrificing these people for their new family, and for the drugs they feed them. That is why they stay and keep committing these heinous crimes. They become so numb to the killing it is like swatting a fly to them now; no remorse. Is it their fault for growing up in this place? With these people? That is happening to thousands of children in countries that are looking for anyone that can hold a gun. These children have grown up in this place and they can be saved but should they be? Many would say yes, they want to save these children of war, but of course on what terms? Many draw the line at 14, but all cases are different and we should take that into consideration. If the child is younger than 14 they should be able to be rehabilitated. If older than 18 they should be triled younger than 18, but in between a series of tests should be