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Armed Rebel Group Research Paper

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Suicide bombers, rebel groups, minefield clearers, and soldiers are words used to describe these children in a terrible situation. In places like Afghanistan, Iran, and Guantanamo Bay children as young as 5 years old are apprehended from their families, and are taken to army camps to fight against the U.S-backed government. These children are so innocent, but many think that they need to be arrested for what they are doing. Instead of playing on a playground with their families they are brainwashed, drugged, forced to kill, and poisoned with alcoholic beverages.
These kids are in no condition for fighting in armed rebel groups but the numbers of these kids are starting to go up. “Over 8,000 children are fighting in armed rebel groups, battling the U.S-backed government.” They are taught to kill and are forced to think that killing is a good thing, plus, the guns they are supposed to use are even heavier than most of these kids, so that clearly shows they shouldn't be using them. These child soldiers need to be put in rehabilitation instead of being put in prison, they are being forced to take drugs, they are brainwashed into thinking …show more content…

His father had forced him into becoming a child soldier. At the age of only fifteen he was involved in a firefight which lead to him being blinded in one eye and two bullet wounds to his chest. But the thing is he also caused the death of US Army Sgt. First Class Christopher Speer by throwing a grenade in his direction. Omar was being lead by his own father, and if you try to leave the camps you either escape safely or you get shot and killed. Omar Kadhr couldn’t get away, ever, he was forever trapped in this area of brutality and hazards. Yes, the soldiers are provided with food, water and shelter, but they are treated very poorly in these camps, being threatened, forced to go to war, and sometimes forced to go raid their hometowns and kill their own

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