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Research Paper On Child Amnesty

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Should child soldiers be given amnesty? This controversial question has been on individuals’ minds for a long time. But these poor children are victims of the wars and battles they have been forced to fight in. These poor children should be given amnesty, but only if they are mentally and physically ready for it. Some people believe that these children shouldn’t be given amnesty or legal forgiveness. One reason they may feel this way is because these children have most likely killed many U.S. soldiers. According to “The Child Soldier on Trial at Guantanamo” By Andrea Prasow it states that Omar Khadr, a former child soldier, who mortally injured a U.S. army Sergeant and while also injured the other soldiers with him, by the use of a grenade. Which also breaks a law of war ,the combatant, …show more content…

These children have been injured by either weapons or the fact that they killed a person. These children have been injured greatly take Omar Khadr when he did kill that Surgent he got shot in the chest twice and he got blinded in one eye. Also some of these kids are mentally scarred by the fact they killed all those people and felt no remorse until they realized it. These poor children have been forced to take a lot of drugs and alcohol so they need to heal all the physical and mental dependence of the drug. Also their families are gone, dead, or have decided to sell these kids. These children have lost their families or were abandoned so they should be healed. Should child soldiers be given amnesty? These children should be given amnesty if they are mentally and physically ready. Though some people may think they shouldn’t but they should for all reasons stated before. But there is something to know as a human race we have been forcing people to join and fight wars. Some examples are South Korea, North Korea, and France around the late

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