Loss of Innocence

2003: 500,000 children served in army/ rebel groups

Conflicts have created 1 million orphans

10 million children have serious psychological trauma

Child soldiers are often given drugs to help them cope with their emotions making it easier for them to kill.

Over 50 countries recruit children (under age 18) into their armed forces

PovertyOnly option

NaïveDon’t know between

right & wrongEasy to Manipulate

ForcedDie or Join

"I did bad things in the bush and I saw very bad things done to

both children and adults” (BBC)

Alhaji from rebel group from Sierra Leone

“Other trainees, if they were caught trying to run away, their hands and feet were beaten with a bamboo stick and then put in shackles and beaten and poked again and again and they then

were taken to the lock up.” Boy from Myanmur, abducted at 13.

“One boy tried to escape, but he was caught. They made him eat a mouthful of red pepper, and five people were beating him.”

• Susan 12, Uganda

Emmanuel Jal, former Ugandan child soldier raps:

"My dreams are like torment,My every moment.Voices of my brainOf friends that were slain,Friends who died by my side of starvationIn the burning jungle and the desert plain.”

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