Child Soldiers in Uganda The Lord’s Resistance Army, a rebel war group in Uganda, is a major part of the ongoing twenty-year war and is responsible for abducting and brainwashing children to become sufficient killing machines. These actions have left people disheveled and worrisome for their children. Parents with children in Uganda live in government camps ridden with disease, poverty and starvation to avoid attacks from the Lords Resistance Army and hope that their children won’t be abducted. Parents with abducted children hope for their children to return, but these children now have a new family. If abducted children are able to manage a successful escape, they tend to have a hard time living as a part of the community again.
You can see where a problem would arise here. The pilots would have no idea who they are dropping their bombs on, just what coordinates it is. Bombs were dropped on US soldiers everyday but more vital, local South Vietnamese. America might not have understood at the time but they were the biggest recruiter for their own enemy. Every village destroyed, brother killed, livestock murdered.
A major reason is the belief of someone causing genocide is because they blame a group of people for problems in a country. Genocide exists in the form of abortion and in unjust laws. Genocide exists in abortion because many unborn babies around the world are being killed and not given a chance to live outside the wound. Unjust laws are a part of genocide because it takes away people’s freedom or causes harm to them. Genocide does exist today in countries around the world today like Darfur, Sudan.
In addition to this girls are also used to abduct other children for the military forces and also take part in food raids. Generally, children are seen as easily replaceable soldiers and of little worth by adult soldiers, this explains why so many children died needlessly. Military commanders kill children for the following reasons; if they refused to join the military force or carry out orders, if they became sick or can not keep up with their adult comrades and also for trying to escape. Some children,
The cycle continues with Grange’s son, Brownfield, as he brutally abuses his wife and children—murdering his wife in the end. Ruth, Brownfield’s daughter, is able to beat the odds and break the sequence of domestic abuse and racism. Several factors prompt the victimization of women illustrated throughout the novel. The main force is the need for male dominance and power, a desire that results from societal oppression (racism), which the African American men face in the South. All of the characters victimized by racism, as well as domestic violence, are negatively impacted.
A Clockwork Orange is about one teenage boy named Alex whose goal in life was to mainly cause trouble. He was in a “gang”, so to say, with his three other friends and they would go around either create adultery by raping women in their homes or going to the local stores and wrecking up the place. When Alex was finally stabbed in the back by his so called “friends” he was sent to jail for murdering a woman. While spending time in jail he learned of a therapy technique that was looking for candidates for testing and would initially take time off the prison sentence for participating. Alex was initially chosen and soon learned that this “therapy” was more like torture and he was forced to watch countless hours of gruesome crimes, some that he committed himself.
They were subjected to continual physical, competitions (which could involve violence), given meager rations and expected to become skilled at stealing food, among other survival skills. The teenage boys who demonstrated the most leadership potential were selected for participation in the Crypteia, which acted as a secret police force whose primary goal was to terrorize the general Helot population and murder those who were troublemakers. At age 20, Spartan males became full-time soldiers, and remained on active duty until age 60. The Spartans’ constant military drilling and discipline made them skilled at
A child soldier is someone under the age of 18 who is stolen or kidnapped from their homes, to be trained to become a violent or even deadly killer. These innocent children are forced into armies, to fight wars that they didn’t start. The horrible and tragic fate of many unfortunate children is set on the path of war, murders and suffering. It
In Nepal when a Maoist supporter is found the standard scenario is the Nepali police barging into homes arresting the supporter so they can beat him/her severely for a few days and then let there family know that they were shot dead in an “encounter” with the police. In the case of fifteen year old Subhadra Sapkota, a dancer from Naubise was performing in Kathmandu to support Maoist rebels was gunned down by the police. Violence caused by the police affects Lucas 2 thousands every year world wide, and the fear of it never ending affects even more, even in countries like Nepal that people would never think of such an act being committed. Justice. Just what does this word mean?
These incidents remind us that kids are capable of disturbing behavior, no matter what age. Because of the severity of these cases, the juvenile system has become a gravely issue concerning correctional professionals and policy makers (Clear, 471). The history of juvenile corrections is quite dire compared to what we have accomplished today. In the 1600’s, the Elizabeth Poor Laws were established to place delinquent children under the care of the Church wardens and overseers. Most ended up in poorhouses and working houses, working under oppressed conditions that were closely viewed as slavery (Clear, 471).