The use of child soldiers is probably the world's most unrecognized form of child abuse -New York Times
-Liberia Child-The rebels told me to join them, but I said no!. Then they killed my smaller brother. I changed my Mind - L Age Seven
- South of Thailand child-We were frightened because we were young children and we didn't know anything about the army. Even on the shooting range, when they tell you to fire. you are always very scared. For me to overcome that fear, I had to kill someone at the training camp. They brought someone to me one night when I was on duty guarding an entrance. It was a child whose face they'd covered, and they told he was a rebel, an enemy and I had to kill him. That's Exactly what I did. On the spot. With my knife, that night after doing that, I couldn't sleep - G Age Ten
-Columbia Child-If you join to paramilitaries (The AUC in Colombia), your first duty is to kill. They tell you "Here you are going to kill". From the very beginning, they teach you how to kill. I mean when you arrive at the camp, the first thing they do is kill a guy, and if you are recruit they call you over, to prick at him, to chop off his hands and arms - A Age Twelve
-Iraqi Child-Last night I fired a rocket- propelled against a Tank. The American are weak. They Fight for money and status and squeal like pigs when they die. But we will kill the unbelievers because faith is the most powerful weapon. M - Age Twelve
- FARC Child Soldier-They bring the people they catch...to the training course. My squad had to kill three people. After the first one was killed, the Commander told me that the next day I'd have to do the killing. I was stunned and appalled. I had to do it publicly, in front of the whole company, fifty people. I had to shoot him in the head. I was trembling. Afterward, I couldn't eat, I'd see the person's blood. For a week. I had a hard time sleeping... They'd kill there or four people each day in the course. Different squads would take turns, would have to do it on different days. Some of the victims cried and screamed. The commanders told us we had to learn how to kill. - O Age Fifteen (recruited by FARC at age twelve)
- Afgan Child-Their understanding of the power and consequences of their acts is often limited. Indeed, children's immaturity and inexperience is often the very reason they are exploited.
Six million more children have been disabled or seriously injured in wars over the last decades, and one million children have been orphaned. Almost twenty - five million more children have been driven from their homes by conflict, rouhgly 50 percent of the current total number of refugees in the world. Another ten million children have been psychologically traumatized by war, and these number are growing only larger. I have remembered with one of hadist spirit, when you see the badness, change by your hand, if you can't, change by your words, if you can't, then pray for it.
Gigih Pribadi - I Was inspired by Children At War books 2006, Peter Waren Singer
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