Africa - Child Soldiers - Are child soldiers always forced to become child soldiers?
Child Soldiers are little kids that have been forced to become child soldiers,or some of them become soldiers voluntarily when the government or rebels groups in Africa , need soldiers they go to villages and they take kids that are 12 or older, that's why kids in Africa are afraid of being 12 years old because they know that the soldiers will come and take them and the soldiers will make them child soldiers, they use child soldiers in battle to cross the minefields so the other soldiers don't get hurt by the mines or they use the children as spies or they send kids to kill soldiers of the government, if the children don't want to do their work they torture them or they kill them, some children run when the soldiers come to their village so they don't get take by the soldiers, soldiers also go to schools to take kids and make them child soldiers and if a teacher or a person try to stop the soldiers of taking the kids they will kill that person if a child soldier try to escape they will found it they will kill them,especially almost all the child soldiers are from Africa because they don't have anything to protect their self.
M=Child Soldiers are forced to become child soldiers because, soldiers need more troops in their rebel groups and because the children are more easy to take by force because children are little and the children can't do anything and if the family of the children try to stop the soldier,the soldiers will kill the family of that children.
E/A=According to UNICEF ,when investigating Child Soldiers, "The Revolutionary Front has been raiding villages to capture children and force them to witness or take part in the torture and execution of their own relatives ". Children are forced to become child soldiers, because soldiers go to villages and capture children to make them soldiers and if they don't want to go they forced them or they torture them.
E/A=An article by Independent, child soldiers was reported on, "The boys, as young as 12, were seized from the community of Wau Shilluk in Upper Nile State, when militants searched from building to building to take them by force". Children are forced to become child soldiers because militants go to villages and search children that are young as 12 to force the children to become child soldiers.
E/A=In researching child soldiers recruitment, ''They were given no choice, They were now the latest young recruits, in South Sudan's bloody civil war"(Burridge). Children are forced to become child soldiers because, children were forced to go to the civil war and if the children said no there was no given choice or the soldiers kill the child.
E/A=In investigation of child soldiers recruitment, "Boys in many areas of conflict are being rounded up and sent to the front line to fight" (SSF). Children are forced to become child soldiers because, soldiers forced child soldiers to go to the front line to fight and if the children said no the soldiers will still send the children to fight.
E/A= In researching of child soldiers recruitment, "When they were sent to fetch water and fire wood,the boys escaped, walking for days". Children are forced to become child soldiers because, when the soldiers forced children to fetch water and supplies the children try to escape in the traveling and if the soldiers find the children that try to escape they kill all the children that try to escape.
L= Children are being forced to become child soldiers in Africa by soldiers of the rebels groups that control Africa.
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