Tuesday, June 27, 2006

Forced Conscription Of Children Is Evil

I just became interested in Sudan & Uganda because of a movie I saw called Invisible Children, which was given to my dad by our family's friend Scott Cummins. It showed what the Sudan People's Liberation Army is doing to Ugandan and Sudanese children. Although a greater evil is the Sudanese goverment based in Khartoum, the recruiting of kids to fight in a war is completely wrong . The SPLA are turning children into killing machines under the threat that they are going to be killed if they don't kill 50 people.

Many of these children hide in hospitals at night from fear of being abducted. Although "Invisible Children" was made in 2003, three years later the problem still exists in all of Sudan (especially the Darfur region) plus most of Africa especially in Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Somalia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

This article from the Daily News in Tanzania reveals that there have been 100,000 child soldiers recruited to fight in wars in Africa, and that more are forced into fighting by the government in Sudan's north than the rebels in the south. The Coalition To Stop The Use Of Child Soldiers is an organization working to prevent the recruitment of children for soldiers.

I think that Sudan shouldn't have this much turmoil, and children should first get education, then be allowed to decide what their future is going to be.

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Anonymous said...

Great.