Child Soldiers In The Military

Do you think child soldiers should be given amnesty for crimes while in the military? Many children were taken away from their families and were put to commit crimes. I believe that children should be given amnesty. Although some people might not agree with me, several reasons support my opinion. My first reason is that children can get hurt or can get injured. My second reason that children should be given amnesty is that children are too young to be held responsible for their actions. My third reason is that children are forced to be in the military.

My first reason is that children can get hurt and be injured. Children that are in the military can get into all kinds of injuries such as being shot with a gun and just basically being aimed at with a bullet anywhere.There are times where people actually survive and there are others they don’t make it. So being in the military can be very dangerous for a lot of children especially for children that are at a young age. Children can also get abused. There are a lot of things that can happen to children in the military. Kids can get hurt in so many ways and probably not might make it.

Another reason that children should be given amnesty is that children are too young to …show more content…
There are a lot of children that have been taken away from their families and were put to commit crimes that are very dangerous children. In the article of child soldiers prosecution it states, “ children are often forced into fighting and having little choice over whether they enlist.” This means that children have no choice about being in the military. In the article it states, “ The recruiters of child soldiers also use drugs and alcohol to make children more compliant and enable them to commit crimes they wouldn’t not ordinarily commit.” This means that I guess children take drugs and alcohol to commit crimes that you probably wouldn’t expect them