Why Do Child Soldiers Go To Jail

These children have no choice but to fight if they want to stay alive. These child soldiers shouldn't be persecuted because they are just innocent children who had their families killed, their homes destroyed, and now have nowhere to go. Even if these children wanted to leave, they couldn't because if they did, they would just be killed. These children didn't really have a choice to leave or not, but they got the benefit of food, water and shelter but were forced to kill other innocent people. But overall these children were drugged if they didn't fight so that

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They lack the mental maturity and judgement to express consent or to fully understand the implications for their actions…”. This quote from “Should Child Soldiers Be Prosecuted for Their Crimes?” By JOHANNESBURG perfectly explains why child soldiers should not be persecuted for their crimes. They were not yet mature enough to comprehend what they were doing when they were killing people. Take the not yet mature mind of a child, and mix it with the awful drugs they had to take, and there is no way that the child soldiers were thinking on their own. Once the child has gone through treatment and is free of drugs and a bit more mature in the brain, they are nowhere near the mindset that they were in while they were fighting. It is almost like the child during battle, and after battle, are two totally different people. Therefore, this clean and more mature person should be granted amnesty, and not be persecuted for his or her

Child soldiers were kids that were forced to kill americans. They shouldn’t be send to jail. Why? Because what they did they had no other option , they’re too young many soldiers were scarf for life & they have a life ahead of them.

I believe that child soldiers are victims and should not be punished by their actions.

In many war-torn countries, seeing children on the war front is quite common. Some believe that these child soldiers should be punished for their actions. These people believe that the child soldiers should be treated as criminals. Others believe that child soldiers should not be punished for their actions, instead treated fully as victims. However, while the child soldiers can be committing crimes, they are also victims.

My first piece of evidence comes from debatewise. According to someone on debatewise “Child soldiers rarely have the same understanding of their decisions and actions as adults and therefore should not be held responsible for their actions.” Why should these kids be held responsible? They don't even understand what adults do. These kids are too young to understand the consequences of their actions. my next piece of evidence comes from the article armed and underage. According to armed and underage “These kids can be so easily brainwashed” How are you suppose to be aware of what you're doing when you have been brainwashed? It is not child soldiers fault for these crimes if they were not fully capable of understanding what they were doing because they were brainwashed. Now for my last piece of evidence which comes from a summative essay. According to a summative essay on child soldiers “They lack the mental maturity and judgement to express consent or to fully understand the implications of their actions.” Like I said before, these child soldiers are not mentally capable of understanding the consequences of their actions. They may not fully understand the meaning of death. That is the evidence I have found for this idea. Now some of you people out there may be thinking they at least know bad from wrong. Well let me tell you, when you're young, scared, and confused from being

“If a child under the age of 15 is considered too young to fight he or she should also be considered too young to be held criminally responsible for serious violations of the IHL.” Usually if a kid does something wrong when they are young, when they are older they will know what they did is wrong, so if an 8 year old child soldier gets prosecuted 5 years after he became a soldier, he or she will probably know what they did is wrong but since they would be under the age of 15 they should be given amnesty for their actions. But on the other hand an 8 year old could join the military and doesn't get arrested until he is 19 and he still doesn’t care about violating the IHL they should go to

For some of the people in the world you might think that child soldiers are criminals I think different. Why I think different is that they are not criminals they are victims not criminals. I will give you five reasons and these are kids getting brainwashed,kicked off sports,clearing minefields, parents selling them and resist going to help in the wars. The first most important reason from the article “Armed and Underage” is when they get brainwashed.

First of all, child soldiers should be given amnesty because almost all of them were forced or kidnapped. Do to the lack of knowledge at such a young age the ones who joined had no idea what they were getting themselves into. Hundreds of the children were forced into being a child soldier

So instead of trying to punish them for their actions, should they be given amnesty instead? There are many reasons to why child soldiers even do what they do. According to the article Child Soldiers - Summative Essay, many of them are forced to join out of their own will. This includes them being kidnapped from their family and taken to some military camp to being forcefully recruited into serving a specific fighting group. Children are forced to serve by commanders through false promises, drugs, and other things that are unimaginable.

Imagine looking around you and seeing children your age and younger falling to their knees in pain, imagine hearing guns and screams all around you, now just imagine you are one of those children falling to their knees in pain and you had no choice to join into this gruesome reality that children 5-15 and older have to participate in without a choice. This is just an example of what most children have to go through for weeks or maybe months at a time. This is exactly why I'm against the prosecution of child soldiers. The deeds that they perform are because they have either been manipulated, have no choice, or they just don't know right from wrong. Prosecuting a child soldier is probably the worst decision ever and here is why.

The side that argues prosecuting the child soldiers says kids were given the option to stay or leave, and most chose to stay. That is only partly true. It is true that they are given the option. Yet, the children indirectly forced to stay. Because they have become addicted to the drugs the warlords gave them, they are now dependent on them for those drugs and simply cannot leave, as it reads on debatewise.org. Also, Ishmael Beah points out that through the war, they have gained a connection to their commanders and fellow soldiers. For some, including Ishmael, it is the only family they have left. So, they may, indeed, choose to stay, but not for the reason the many believe. Instead of staying for the fighting, the stay for of family. Those who argue that child soldiers should be considered the perpetrators also say that if we grant amnesty to the soldiers, there would be no justice for the victims they killed. This is completely agreeable and understandable. It is agreeable that there should be punishment given in order to fulfill justice for the victims. However, in order for justice to be fully satisfied, the children should not be the ones punished, but rather, the warlords who wish to come to the US from their country of origin. The warlords drug the child soldiers and kill those who do not follow orders. They also force some to join. If child soldiers were

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