CHILD SOLDIERS

By Javier Ballester Vela. 1º BAC B.

In a world where millions of children “play war games” with toy guns or with video

games, other boys and girls are pushed into real war, becoming young fighters. For

them WAR is not a funny game, but real life. They learn to solve conflicts with

weapons, kill others and very often become addicted to certain drugs. Afghanistan,

Colombia, India, Iraq, Israel, Libya, Mali, Pakistan, Thailand, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen

are using child soldiers. They even take part in suicide missions.

Soldier kids haven’t got any rights. Each day, these boys and girls see their future

truncated. They are innocent victims. Some of them  have been kidnapped, others 

recruited by force,  bribed or deceived, other times their desire to take revenge   because

their family have been killed or suffered violence. We should try to change this

situation, but for many of them coming back to normal life will be very  difficult, if not

impossible! I strongly believe this is one of the most important problems in the world.

How could we help to solve this problem? If you are interested, you can find more

information in this link http://www.rescue.org/child-soldiers