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Essay / Roméo Dallaire Enfants Soldats - 1826
Roméo Dallaire, is the author of The Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children, and he declares: “It may seem unimaginable to you that child soldiers exist and yet, it is the reality for many rebels. 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 the child soldier… Man created the ultimate human weapon, cheap, expendable, but sophisticated, 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 is taking place. Child soldiers approached Roméo Dallaire in 1994, while the genocide was taking place in Rwanda. This book demonstrates 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 insight into the situation of child soldiers. He believes that no child should have to live this type of life because they are children and they have every right to be children. In this novel, They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children, and it focuses on the idea of the rebels and then moves away to the early stages of the child soldier process. Another novel called Children at War by PWSinger tells several stories written by child soldiers. For example, a fourteen-year-old boy wrote: "I joined the army at fourteen because, first of all, I was convinced that the only way to get my parents back or prevent this from happening was to part of the army and kill the people responsible for the murder of my parents. But, you see, what is very disturbing about this thing is that once I joined...... middle of paper...... they are easy to access; they are inexpensive and easy to handle. When children fight on the battlefield for their lives, they become more violent and tend to commit more murders than usual, raping girls and torturing 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 it proves that he is recognized and involved in the violence they created. Child soldiers are known to be criminals, traitors or even terrorists, so they would be held in military prisons. When girls or boys are captured, they are subjected to abusive interrogation procedures, torture, isolation, rape and death threats. These are the consequences of children being on the battlefield and shortly after being captured..