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I read this on a news site about this report that came out, it's in norwegian and i couldn't find it anywhere else, but anyway here is the link
http://www.dagbladet.no/magasinet/2004/11/22/415284.html
I'll translate some of the stuff
*It's speculated that there are around 300.000 childreen soldiers around the world, who are in 21 different conflicts. Some are normal soldiers while others work in the camp, are spies and some girls acts as sex slaves
*Most are kidnapped and forced into these conflicts while other freely volenter. This can be because there is not much left of their village, or/and they have seen family members killed or tortured, or they are pushed by their family for political reasons.
Qoutes from some of the childreen
"It was like a nightmare. We wore getting beaten all the time, mostly without any reason whatsoever, just to keep us scared. I still have a scar on my lip and my stomach hurts very much after many kicks by older soldiers. We wore forced to learn to fight our enemy, in a war i didn't understand why we wore in"
"They gave me pills which made me crazy. When the madness reached my head i hit people in the head untill they started bleeding. When the madness went away i felt guilty. If i could remember the people i attacked i would go and appologise to them"
In this report it basicly says that kids are very valuable to these people because they are easy to manipulate and they barely ask questions. Most of the girls in these wars volunter or get in the war somehow to avoid slavery in their home, forced marriges, violence and sex abuse.
Nearly all of them are manipulated by their supperiors into believing that they are fighting for the right cause, that their enemy (everyone else) are inhumane and evil people that must be destroyed. They really teach these kids fear and hate. Their religon also plays a big role in this
I also read that most of these kids go through some tests too. For example, one kid was forced to kill his best friend, if he didn't shoot him he would get shot himself.
Another bunch of them was forced to kill a friend while he was tied up, by beating him untill he died with a stick, if they didn't do this they would get shoot.
They say this is done for their own good, to make them a better warrior so they wont hessitate when they meet their enemy.
Many the kids who survive into adulhood are unable to live a normal lives, they have nightmares, many become mentaly unstable.. and so on, basicly pretty obvious stuff. After killing people all your life that's sort of expected
Yeah, everyone knew this was around but i didn't realize that it was just this bad.
Here are some pics
This guy is still wearaing a teddy bear on his back
They say every year china train several thousand childreen from age 11 to 13 for war
Kids attacking an american tank
Long post?
Thoughts?
http://www.dagbladet.no/magasinet/2004/11/22/415284.html
I'll translate some of the stuff
*It's speculated that there are around 300.000 childreen soldiers around the world, who are in 21 different conflicts. Some are normal soldiers while others work in the camp, are spies and some girls acts as sex slaves
*Most are kidnapped and forced into these conflicts while other freely volenter. This can be because there is not much left of their village, or/and they have seen family members killed or tortured, or they are pushed by their family for political reasons.
Qoutes from some of the childreen
"It was like a nightmare. We wore getting beaten all the time, mostly without any reason whatsoever, just to keep us scared. I still have a scar on my lip and my stomach hurts very much after many kicks by older soldiers. We wore forced to learn to fight our enemy, in a war i didn't understand why we wore in"
"They gave me pills which made me crazy. When the madness reached my head i hit people in the head untill they started bleeding. When the madness went away i felt guilty. If i could remember the people i attacked i would go and appologise to them"
In this report it basicly says that kids are very valuable to these people because they are easy to manipulate and they barely ask questions. Most of the girls in these wars volunter or get in the war somehow to avoid slavery in their home, forced marriges, violence and sex abuse.
Nearly all of them are manipulated by their supperiors into believing that they are fighting for the right cause, that their enemy (everyone else) are inhumane and evil people that must be destroyed. They really teach these kids fear and hate. Their religon also plays a big role in this
I also read that most of these kids go through some tests too. For example, one kid was forced to kill his best friend, if he didn't shoot him he would get shot himself.
Another bunch of them was forced to kill a friend while he was tied up, by beating him untill he died with a stick, if they didn't do this they would get shoot.
They say this is done for their own good, to make them a better warrior so they wont hessitate when they meet their enemy.
Many the kids who survive into adulhood are unable to live a normal lives, they have nightmares, many become mentaly unstable.. and so on, basicly pretty obvious stuff. After killing people all your life that's sort of expected
Yeah, everyone knew this was around but i didn't realize that it was just this bad.
Here are some pics
This guy is still wearaing a teddy bear on his back
They say every year china train several thousand childreen from age 11 to 13 for war
Kids attacking an american tank
Long post?
Thoughts?