Introduction

Around 300,000 child soldiers around the world are in forced active duty as they kill to survive in the ranks in the multiple different armies, both legitimate and freedom fighters, as the fight over 50 different conflicts worldwide. They cannot normally get out of this life alive. In fact, most of the children die in their first year of captive fighting. These kids are abducted from their homes when they are in their homes when they are barely in middle school. They are forced to kill their families and are then brainwashed with drugs and beatings to become soulless killers. The perfect soldier. One who doesn't question. The boys are given mind altering drugs and the girls are forced to be sex slaves. The boys are forced to kill, plunder, rape, and kidnap new soldiers and sex slaves. The women are forcibly raped over and over again as well as being beaten, sometimes to death. These atrocities need to stop. We need to figure out the fastest way to kill these crazed war  lords and return these kids to their lives as well as return the security to these kids minds all over Africa and as far as the Middle East.


My name is Connor Perry and this is for a school project. However I am actually fairly passionate about this problem and will provide accurate information from as many different sources as I can. This may not be a daily or even regularly updated blog but I will try to provide a strong point to this issue. Whether this is based on actual child soldiers or different studies on the drugs they are subjected to, the disorders they might encounter (i.e. Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD) from the brutal treatment they are given and taught to give out. This blog may also have some of my personal thoughts on political issues from around the world from my view of the Arab Spring to Iran's Nuclear Program to our somewhat trivial debates about stuff like obesity.
Thank you for reading,
Connor Perry