Child soldiers around the world."Young boys were immediately recruited, and the initials RUF were carved wherever it pleased the rebels, with a hot bayonet. This not only meant that you were scarred for life but that you could never escape from them, because escaping with the carving of the rebels' initials was asking for death, as soldiers would kill you without any questions and militant civilians would do the same" (Beah 24).
The young boys in Sierra Leone is "immediately recruited" by RUF as soon as they are found or captured. The rebel group coerce boys as young as 11 or less to fight the war they have created.
The boys are not only targeted for RUF, but also for villi ages they pass by. In "a long way gone", Ishmael and his friends constantly confront villagers' hostility.
Simply, "people stopped trusting each other, and every stranger became an enemy" (Beah 37).
The young boys are in the most vulnerable position in this war. They are not treated well by neither the civilians nor the rebels.
Instead of being a subject that should be protected by everyone, their daily lives are threatened by cruelty of the war.
They are forced to fight the war for rebels and after they are freed, they are tried for what they were coerced to do.
In order to free the boy soldiers from their dilemma, special court for juvenile soldiers has been created by both U.N. and government in Sierra Leone. Instead of imprisonment, those boys will be "sentenced to truth and reconciliation mechanism" and eventually will be released to their community. The boys who were younger than 15 year old when they committed to the war, are not subjected to trial.
http://www.law.northwestern.edu/journals/jihr/v2/8/
http://africannewsanalysis.blogspot.com/2007_03_18_archive.htmlThe young boys in Sierra Leone is "immediately recruited" by RUF as soon as they are found or captured. The rebel group coerce boys as young as 11 or less to fight the war they have created.
The boys are not only targeted for RUF, but also for villi ages they pass by. In "a long way gone", Ishmael and his friends constantly confront villagers' hostility.
Simply, "people stopped trusting each other, and every stranger became an enemy" (Beah 37).
The young boys are in the most vulnerable position in this war. They are not treated well by neither the civilians nor the rebels.
Instead of being a subject that should be protected by everyone, their daily lives are threatened by cruelty of the war.
They are forced to fight the war for rebels and after they are freed, they are tried for what they were coerced to do.
In order to free the boy soldiers from their dilemma, special court for juvenile soldiers has been created by both U.N. and government in Sierra Leone. Instead of imprisonment, those boys will be "sentenced to truth and reconciliation mechanism" and eventually will be released to their community. The boys who were younger than 15 year old when they committed to the war, are not subjected to trial.
http://www.law.northwestern.edu/journals/jihr/v2/8/
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