INJUSTICE OF CHILD SOLDIERS

By Jessica Higbee

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Social Injustice Social Injustice- is a relative concept about the claimed

unfairness or injustice of a society in its divisions of rewards and burdens and other incidental inequalities based on the user's worldview of humanity.

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Child Soldiers This type of social injustice affects children

between the ages of 5-14.

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Sunday Obote

A 7-year old boy was captured by the Lord’s Resistance Army in 1994

The LRA tried to turn the children into “Human killing machines”

Once arrived at camp, watched a young boy who tried to escape get killed

Learned no emotions were allowed Learned their guns were their best friends

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Sunday Obote 2

Young boys and girls were involved (girls were used for the military men’s awards)

On march to Southern Sudan many people were murdered for falling asleep b/c they couldn’t handle the walk

Many children killings alerted the U.S. Ones who were rescued went to camps to

learn to get un-traumatized

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Result of Child Soldiers Thousands of children brutalized (attacked) Became known as the “Largest Neglected

Humanitarian Emergency In the World” More than 20,000 kidnapped 90% of Ugandan population displaced Children made up 80% of the terrorist

insurgency movement

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Why I Chose This Tells the story of a boy not much younger

than me Things can get better Very in-depth

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