1. Good morning!
Take out your CNN Student News paper
Sit down quietly

2. Child Soldiers
Vulnerable to military recruitment as a result of their emotional and physical immaturity.

3. Child Soldier Quote
“Early on when my brothers and I were captured, the LRA explained to us that all five brothers couldn’t serve in the LRA because we would not perform well. So they tied up my two younger brothers and invited us to watch. Then they beat them with sticks until two of them died. They told us it would give us the strength to fight. My youngest brother was 9 years old.”
Martin, recruited by the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda at age twelve.

4. Who is a Child Soldier?
Any person under the age of 18 who is a member of, or attached to, government armed forces (whether or not an armed conflict exists).
Can be both boys and girls

5. Why Join? Forcibly recruited
Majority who “voluntarily” join are between 14 and 18
Factors Involved:
Poverty
Lack of education
Power, status
Pressures/Honor (Family/Peer)
Factors Involved:
Few alternatives
War
Social, economic, community, and family structures
Survival
Vengeance killings
Income promises
Girls: avoid servitude, violence, forced marriage

6. Child Soldier Tasks Combat Laying mines and explosives Scouting Spying
Decoys
Guards
Training
Logistics
Cooking and domestic labor
Sexual slavery

7. Willing Child Soldier Participants
This map indicates only situations in which children have ACTIVELY
Participated in conflict. It DOES NOT show all countries where children
are recruited into government armed forces or armed groups.

8. West and Central Africa

9. North, East, and Southern Africa

10. Child Soldiers Why children soldiers are easy recruits:
Easily manipulated
Intensely loyal
Fearless
Endless supply
*****Recent reports estimate that there are approximately 300,000 child soldiers world wide (*under age of 18)

11. Child Soldiers
Child soldiers are located throughout the world, but in Africa, the problem is severe
Background of child soldiers:
Instituted by Germans during WWII
Iran also made use of child soldiers in the 1980s during the Iran-Iraq War
Other instances involve religion-driven or nationalistic feelings for recruitment

12. Child Soldiers
Children are drawn into fighting at a young age as a result of magic and superstitions
Taught early on that life and death depend on spirits
Leaders of rebel movements are believed to use magic to demand supernatural respect.

13. Night Commuters http://www.hrw.org/photos/2005/uganda/
Since 1986, over 30,000 boys and girls have been abducted in Northern Uganda and forced to become soldiers, laborers and sex slaves.
These children are taken by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), a rebel group that has waged war against the Ugandan government for nearly two decades.
Abducted children are forced to carry out raids, beat and kill civilians, and abduct other children.
They are forced to beat or trample to death other children who attempt to escape, and are repeatedly told that they will be killed if they try to run away.

14. Night Commuters
Every night in northern Uganda, tens of thousands of children, known as night commuters, flow into town centres.
They come seeking safety in shelters set up by aid agencies, with the Ugandan government unable to end a brutal 18-year war and protect them from rebel attacks.

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