What Is The Political Campaign For Defeating The LRA?

C:The use of child soldiers is reaching the level of an epidemic in Sierra Leone and besides the sheer number of children in the armed forces they are also subjugated to many inhumane and awful environments.E: The use of children in warfare was once simple and honorable with basic rules that all would follow. Drummer boys and flag bearers were positions of honor that came with extreme consequence for those who would dare to harm them. E: Now, however, children are becoming so involved that one may even say that an entire army is comprised of adolescents. In Sierra Leone, one would find that there is a extremely large child soldier population within the rebel group, RUF or the Revolutionary United Front, and the government forces. To quote Linda

In over twenty-five countries, many children are abducted and beaten into submission to be used in real life wars. A very famous viral video called “Kony 2012” was trying to get people to help catch the Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony, who has kidnapped thousands of children over the past twenty years. Child soldiers are defined as: children under the age of 18 who are recruited by state or non-state armed groups and used as fighters, cooks, suicide bombers, human shields, messengers, spies, or even for sexual purposes.

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

China has been working on the Sudanese Government and other parties through exchanging visits, sending a special envoy, making phone conversation, and conducting coordination in various places including the UN. Under China’s presidency, the UN Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 1769, paving the way for an AU-UN hybrid peacekeeping force entering Darfur. The Chinese Government has also sent a special envoy to Sudan and continued with its efforts. Besides, China is the first country to commit to and take part in the peace-keeping mission in the Darfur region. At present, the advance team of 140 military engineers has entered the Darfur region and the rest is to phase in shortly. China appreciates and supports the efforts made by the AU , UN envoys on Darfur, and will donate fifty thousand dollars to the UN Trust Fund, which finances the envoys’ mediating work. China traded weapons to South Sudan in order to receive the precious oil. China is respecting their policy which is non-interference in their country which results them in not prevent/ resolving the crisis in South

The Sierra Leone government also took up child combatants, they were best known as rarray boys. Abdullah describes these young men as ‘thugs’, they worked for politicians and caused much trouble throughout the community. The rarray boys were violent, they used drugs and often stole from their fellow people (45). The war continued to progress and eventually became worse. The country was left in disarray and the citizens were left traumatized, “January 1999, the country experienced an unprecedented orgy of violence, destruction, and untold human suffering. Close to 50,000 people were killed or maimed in the process” (240). At this point many of the citizens feared for their lives and fled the country. They went into neighboring countries such

Ismael and the group of kids were so close to meet their families up a hill in a village. Then RUF killed everybody in the village before they got a chance to meet them. After that they got ambush by the Sierra Leone army, make them forced, and brainwashed them to join the army by putting a gun at their heads. Even if they didn’t join the army or didn’t encounter them they will have a slim chance of living of the lack of food or get kill soon. They have to join the army to survive. After their few days they started with the army they play soccer and have their final days of their childhood left before

Imagine having to fight in a war you don’t want to fight in, seeing friends and family die all around you, but no matter how far you run you can never escape. Child soldiers in Sierra Leone do not have to imagine this - for them, it is reality. Ishmael Beah, who became a soldier at just age 12, as well as researchers such as Christophe Bayer, Fionna Klasen, Hubertus Adam know too well that the events in the war can never be forgotten. The story Beah told in his memoir A Long Way Gone captures the inhumane events that take place in Sierra Leone and tells of a story that many children have to endure. Sources like Harvard claim “among the 87 war-torn countries...300,000 - 500,000 children are involved with fighting forces as child soldiers.” Many of those children are being forced into the war without any choice at all and having to kill others as well. With this information we’re forced to ask the question: how are these children being affected by the war?

“Twelve Year Olds Take Over Sierra Leone Villages by Gunpoint” “When you kill for the first time, automatically, you change,” says Norman. “Out of being innocent, you’ve now become guilty. You feel like you’re becoming part of them, part of the rebels.” -Former

* Men yelling in your face. Women screaming for their children’s lives. Imagine all of a sudden you are brainwashed and turned into a killing machine. How would you feel if you were made a slave to a cause you didn't even understand. This sounds like it's straight from a movie, right? Well, the Sierra Leone Army (SLA) and Revolutionary United Front (RUF) used tactics like these towards children in order to indoctrinate them. In 1991, the start of the Sierra Leonean civil war, many children were drafted and forced into the RUF and SLA armies. The armies brainwashed the children and aimed them at the opposing force. By indoctrinating children it is stripping them from their necessary human rights and harm is put on these children. Tactics used by the militaries are against moral standards in every way shape and form. *

In March 2012, Kony 2012, a social media campaign about Joseph Kony and the Lord's Resistance Army went viral. Thanks to a now flat world the YouTube video became an overnight sensation. If you, like me did not know who Joseph Kony was before watching Kony 2012, then I am sure you will never forget who he is after watching Kony 2012. Kony 2012 is part of the Invisible Children campaign to bring Joseph Kony to justice. Invisible Children was founded by Jason Russell the narrator of Kony 2012.

Imagine as a twelve-year-old what life is like, all the fun to have and the carelessness with little to no responsibilities. Now imagine, being twelve and being manipulated into fighting wars that can never truly be escaped. Ishmael Beah in A Long Way Gone is one of these kids. He is manipulated into hating the Rebels by the Sierra Leone army and brainwashed to kill all of them. A man named Umar Haque is doing a similar thing to kids, in which he is radicalizing them to commit terrorist attacks for ISIS. Beah’s portrayal of how he is manipulated into war by the Lieutenant helps shed light on what the school children, Umar Haque attempts to radicalize, are enduring because both Beah and the schoolboys are manipulated into becoming child soldiers.

“Compelled to become instruments of war, to kill and be killed, child soldiers are forced to give violent expression to the hatreds of adults” (“Child Soldiers” 1). This quotation by Olara Otunnu explains that children are forced into becoming weapons of war. Children under 18 years old are being recruited into the army because of poverty issues, multiple economic problems, and the qualities of children, however, many organizations are trying to implement ways to stop the human rights violation.

The Lord’s Resistance Army, or the LRA, is Africa’s most violent armed group and also the oldest. Joseph Kony formed the LRA in 1986 in northern Uganda, to fight against the Ugandan Government. At the height of the conflict, about two million people were displaced in northern Uganda. Since the LRA never gained public support, they turned to forcible recruitment to build up their army (“The Lord’s Resistance Army”). Kony, and the LRA believe that Uganda should be governed and run based on the 10 Commandments. They rely on the application of terror in order to keep their campaign alive. The war in Uganda being

Republic because they had suffered three separate army mutinies in 1996. The UN operation is helping to maintain security in the capital of Bangui. They also helped to provide a secure place for the elections and they trained the country's police. In Siberia Leone, there have been revenge attacks by the former military group called Junta. Hundreds of villagers had been killed and thousands more mutilated by former Junta troops hiding in the country. The Security Counsel voted to establish a 70-member team that worked with peacekeepers to reduce Junta. They also support to restore the new government. The UN pledged 55 million dollars in humanitarian aid for refugees there and in neighboring countries. In June of 1998, the Security Council lifted an arms

Who is the Lord’s Resistance Army? The LRA is a rebel Christian cult that has “terrorized” Uganda for nearly thirty years. In 1986, the LRA began as an “evolution of the Holy Spirit Movement.” Led by Alice Lakwena, the Holy Spirit Movement was a rebellion against the oppression of North Uganda by their president, Yoweri Museveni.(invisible children, 2014) Claiming that she was possessed by the spirit of a long-dead Italian soldier, Lakwena was seen unfit to remain the leader of the Holy Spirit Movement. When she was exiled in 1987, Joseph Kony, her supposed cousin, took over the group, renaming it the Lord’s Resistance Army. With hopes of bringing down the Ugandan