Topic > Romeo Dallaire Child Soldiers - 1826

Romeo Dallaire, is the author of The Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children, and states: “It may seem unimaginable to you that child soldiers exist and yet the reality for many rebel gang leaders, and even state governments, is that there is no more complete end-to-end weapons system in the inventory of war machines than that of the child soldier…Man has created the ultimate cheap, expendable, yet sophisticated human weapon at the expense of the future of humanity: its children”. There are many conflicts in the world, but Romeo decided to focus his attention on child soldiers and how the process happens. Child soldiers approached Romeo Dallaire during the year 1994, while the genocide was taking place in Rwanda. This book shows that children are soldiers when they shoot, but when they are injured or killed they become children again. He has made many efforts to end child soldiers and in this book he provides an overview of child soldiers. He believes that no child should live that kind of lifestyle because they are children and have every right to be. In this novel, They Fight Like Soldiers, Die Like Children, focuses on the idea of ​​rebels and then delves into the initial stages of the child soldier trial. Another novel called Children at War by PWSinger contains several stories written by child soldiers, for example a fourteen year old boy wrote: "I joined the army when I was fourteen because, first, I was convinced that the only way to bring back my parents back or preventing this from happening meant joining the army and killing those people responsible for killing my parents, you see, the most disturbing thing about this thing is that once I join... halfway of the paper... they are easy to access; they are low cost and easy to manipulate. When children are on the battlefield fighting for their lives, they become more violent and tend to kill more than usual, rape girls and torture. the others. Armies, militias and rebel groups recruit children and separate the community to resist conscription. The child is forced to commit murder and turn against his family and friends because this shows that the child is recognized and implicated. in the violence they created. Child soldiers are known to be criminals, traitors or even terrorists, so they would be detained in military prisons. When girls or boys are captured, they face abusive interrogations, torture, solitary confinement, rape and death threats. These are the consequences of children being on the battlefield and immediately after being captured.