child soldiers

[peaches]

Child soldiers are still being recruited in at least 13 countries from Afghanistan to Uganda, 10 years after international guidelines were agreed to eradicate their use, a British-based charity said on Monday.

the rest of the article found here talks of this as if its just a regular old problem. no emotion at all.

this is a catastrophe! i dont understand why there is no outrage concerning this!! why do these people think that signing a piece of paper is gonna solve everything? i am sick and tired of this. this really really pains me.

what kills me even more is responses like this, also found in the article:

"More than a revolting reality, more than a war crime, it is a time bomb that threatens stability and economic growth in Africa and beyond," French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy told Le Figaro daily on Monday.

yes, we are all concerned about economic growth when there is a kid in Uganda who, at 13, is being forced to bludgeon people to death and eat their brain matter as part of his training.

this world disgusts me!

come to think of it, i guess i should be happy that for the first time in a while, this has actually made the news. its ok that its not in the headlines, i mean, there are other more important things that we should be worried about right? after all, who wants to have all this sad and depressing news thrown in their face all the time. its just some dirty kid in some third world country....nothing to do with us. too far away, nothing we can do, right?

[sweetycakes]

This happens a lot. More than many people realize.

Unfortunately, a lot of these children are kidnapped and forced into military service at gunpoint, with either themselves or their families threatened with death if they don't.

There are also quite a few missions going on where these people have been rescued from this kind of thing. Obviously these kids are traumatized and take a long time to re-adjust to normal society.

But yeah.....the evil of some people seems to know no bounds.

[Joshua-777]

eating brain matter, wow that could disturb a child. THis world is pretty sick, much prayer is needed.

[peaches]

eating brain matter, wow that could disturb a child......

let alone kill his spirit

you should have seen the kid talking about this, he was completely void of spirit. it was just a body telling a story.

[Leonard]

Numbness of the soul. I have seen it a hundred times in children exposed to unspeakable horrors.

[backontrack]

Child soldiers are still being recruited in at least 13 countries from Afghanistan to Uganda, 10 years after international guidelines were agreed to eradicate their use, a British-based charity said on Monday.

the rest of the article found here talks of this as if its just a regular old problem. no emotion at all.

this is a catastrophe! i dont understand why there is no outrage concerning this!! why do these people think that signing a piece of paper is gonna solve everything? i am sick and tired of this. this really really pains me.

what kills me even more is responses like this, also found in the article:

"More than a revolting reality, more than a war crime, it is a time bomb that threatens stability and economic growth in Africa and beyond," French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy told Le Figaro daily on Monday.

yes, we are all concerned about economic growth when there is a kid in Uganda who, at 13, is being forced to bludgeon people to death and eat their brain matter as part of his training.

this world disgusts me!

come to think of it, i guess i should be happy that for the first time in a while, this has actually made the news. its ok that its not in the headlines, i mean, there are other more important things that we should be worried about right? after all, who wants to have all this sad and depressing news thrown in their face all the time. its just some dirty kid in some third world country....nothing to do with us. too far away, nothing we can do, right?

Sad to say that this is what kind of world exists when God is at the bottom of the list! What we need is for the body of Christ to take it's rightful place on this earth and then this situation can and will change!

[peaches]

Sad to say that this is what kind of world exists when God is at the bottom of the list! What we need is for the body of Christ to take it's rightful place on this earth and then this situation can and will change!

its interesting to note that the situation of the kid i described earlier is headed by people who think they are actually doing this for God. its really depressing. the whole way that the word of God was brought to these people of Uganda was done in all the wrong way and now everything is confused and innocent people are suffering for it.

[Iryssa]

Sometimes they enter military service wilfully, too...some families (mothers included) consider it something to be proud of...'cause, you know, there's a special reward for those who die fighting when they meet Allah

[sierra21]

[Zceiv]

Sadly history is repeating itself

The same thing happened in WW2.

It sad humans cant seem to learn from the past and let the children live