Child Soldiers are Victims of Warfare

           In my opinion child soldiers are victims of warfare and there isn’t another way for me put it. I think that a child being involved in warfare is a terrible thing and war its self is a terrible thing. The people that recruit children into wars might actual target the kids that have lost their parents and or don’t really have a choice because they’re alone. Children whose parents have died or have been separated from them might go to military bases to ask for help. But an article that I’ve read told me that the military forcefully recruited children with these problems into their army.

            The child soldiers are told to kill people and after they fight they usually have traumas and don’t feel well. The child soldiers don’t get treatment and the needed attention instead they get drugs to make them not feel the pain. A child soldier, Ismael Beah, had to fight in wars and was interviewed. He said that it took him a really long time to face the traumas. He said everyone received drugs and that this got rid of some of the pain the child soldiers experienced. I don’t know in what way these child soldiers can be considered perpetrators, well besides the fact that they still choose to kill people.

            I don’t agree with the child soldiers being perpetrators but I can see why people would say that. These child soldiers have the choice to pull the trigger and kill their “enemy”. These child soldiers probably don’t know their enemies and so they are only killing them because they are told to do so. So that proves my point even more. The child soldiers are being told to what to do and so in that case they don’t really have a choice. This is why I think child soldiers are victims of warfare.