Armed and Underage

Child soldiers are more efficient because they don’t need to be payed, they don't complain, and they will do whatever you say. Most of the kids are brought in because there aren't enough soldiers to fight for the war. Sometimes kids are forced into becoming a soldier, there rights are taken away. Most kids are sold by their parents or guardians in order for their selfish needs of survival. Kids can be easily brainwashed into thinking they're doing the “right thing.” They’re not only boy soldiers but they're also young girls who are raped. The kids do not benefit from this war, only the people who started the war do. They’re responsible for some deaths, they are responsible for what they did but that doesn’t mean they meant to. They are young and they have no one looking after them. Some kids don't live to see another day because they have, unfortunately, died trying to protect someone or something they don't know about. Some kids grow up and can’t erase the horrible memories of war. All we know about these young kids are uneducated and can be easily manipulated into doing bad things that they think are right. But what do you expect from an uneducated, and poor child who’s trying live and is taught there is nothing but bad in the world, while us educated kids have everything and don’t have to worry about missing a meal in our whole life.