Soldier Child

Although I am truly very interested in warfare and the strategies as well as the atrocity of this issue which is using children, as young as 9 and 10, to kill as well as to serve as sex slaves. However I am doing this blog in the moment as part of a class. Because this is a class, we have multiple sources that we are viewing, the first of many that we will watch or read is called "Child Soldier", which to be honest, I didn't expect it to change my view that much of this issue. I knew about the atrocities and absolute terrors and horrors of wars, and I thought, "Ok, this is horrible and sad, and there isn't any reason why kids as young as 9-10 years old should ever be subjected to the horrors of war. No one should have to witness a man being killed let alone having to kill another man." In the first ten minutes that thought changed completely when you heard the story of an 11 year old boy named Simon, he only told the story of the part where he was abducted, and from the translator's version of his story, within the first couple days he was forced to make his first kill. But because he was a new recruit, he wasn't allowed to just shoot him, he wasn't allowed to do anything to get it over with quickly but was rather given a hoe, one normally used to dig in the ground, but rather he had to kill a man with that same tool. Making anyone kill another man in such a personal way, especially at such a young age. This is such a horrible issue and led by a demon man named Joseph Kony, is he the only warlord that does this? No, Sierra Lionne does, many splinter or rebel groups use children, al-qaida uses children sometimes. However the biggest thing that struck me about this one is that if a child disobeys, he is not killed quickly, one of the biggest ways they are killed, is slowly with machetes and stones and beaten with the gun stock, etc. Is it a mad man who does this or a demon sent straight from hell?