Argument essay on child soldiers.

Many children, right now,all over Africa and different parts of the world are child soldiers. Many children are terrorized brainwashed and kidnapped into becoming child soldiers... But as soon as they kill someone they become perpetrators.

Child soldiers are kidnapped, brainwashed, and terrorized into becoming child soldiers. Not only that but most of them have no choice. In some countries hunger and poverty drives parents to sell their children into service. In the article Children at War by P.W Singer a boy says, " They killed my father and my mother in front of my eyes. I was ten years old." if someone killed my parents I would be mentally scarred for life.

Child soldiers are being used as combatants in the frontlines of war. These boys are literally getting sick from killing people. A boy from the same article says, " I got so sick I thought I was going to die." child soldiers have been used in every continent except Antarctica and yes that includes america. Girls are recruited too.  But most girls are singled out for sexual abuse, including rape. They have a hard time coming back into society. Boys are handling explosives and are suicide bombers, and are involved in terrorism.

"What do I like? I like the gun." says Awil, a child soldier quoted from Chilren at war. This is what kids are saying at such a young age. "The initial use of drugs makes you more powerful." says Ishmael Beah who is a former child soldier. This is what kids know as normal. They are perpetrators, they do drugs, they smoke and they kill people. The kids soon known nothing except for how to be bad.

But even for the child soldiers there is hope. Even though they are brainwashed and kidnapped there is hope. Many child soldiers come in contact with American soldiers. The child soldiers are taken and put in Camp Iguana which is a wing in Guatanamo Bay. The kids there watch DVDs and they learn math and English. Therefore there still is hope for the child soldier