Child soldiers

Dear UNICEF,

My name is Nourhan Elgendy, I’m student at The American School of Muscat. In our class, we have been learning about child soldiers. Since we have been going in depth with this topic, I thought about it for a while and Imagined myself there. When I did finish the process of imagining myself there, I thought this was unpleasant to even think about or imagine any of us in this situation.

In my opinion, Child soldiers shouldn’t participate in war or any kind of violence because there ages isn't the age to participate in physical fights .These kids should be studying, playing, participating in sports and so much more. These kids who were forced to be out in this situation is because they don’t have enough people in the military, will here is the moment is of truth it’s not correct, they do a have elder people who can participate in this kind of stuff, they shouldn’t be using kids who are 7,8,10 and above to build up their military. These kids deserve to have have a family and live their childhoods like any other kids that is blessed to have this life and not having to get involved in this upsetting and unfair situation. It's not logical for a 7,8,10 years old to participate in war and hold a AK-47’s and start shooting people without knowing the proper reasoning for it.

Perhaps you weren’t aware, these insane kids got separated from their families and went to war because of government corruptions. For example: The Somalia corruption in 1997 , due to this, these kids don’t have the freedom to be like any other kids worldwide.These kids are now brainwashed because of how many drugs they take in a day. They will kill people front of them and they don't react to a single action because their brains is just brainwashed , they don't have any kind of sentiment. These kids need help, they need to have a normal life. They can't be living like that, some of them join when they are 7,8,10 and older, but the least is 7 or even lesser. NO ONE KNOWS. It's upsetting to hear that these people go threw drugs which leads to brainwashing, mental and physical pain everyday because the government of a country is corrupted and that’s one of many huge examples around that we have heard that past ten years.

Do you think this is right?! Do you think this can actually make our future generations better by using them to be a child soldiers. From my perspective, I don’t think so, this corruption need to stop as soon as possible. Child soldiers isn’t the right way to make our future generations better people. If we keep using these insane kids in those horrible conditions, I don't think we will even have a future of happiness for any of the upcoming generations.

I will recommend, after these kids finish their “mission”. If they can be moved into a place that they can adapt in super quick, which will hold people in similar situations in the surround area. Which hopefully makes things a little bit more fitting. Which will lead to my dream, my dream is to make these kids smile again and live their lives that they deserve from a really long time.

Sincerely,

Nourhan Elgendy