I think that you have also heard at once the word boy "soldier." Children wind around war or dispute, and are crowded with recently, and it must go to the front more often as a soldier. It is said that about 300,000 people's less than 18-year-old soldier is in the present world. Are what made for a boy soldier to do? It is also fearful to consider it. However, this is not closing our eyes as the same child. Let's study so that boy soldiers may decrease in number, and it may get used to a boy soldier's help!
How...?
It is hardly in the children called boy soldier in the child who volunteers for a soldier himself. The most is kidnapped and a soldier does forcibly.
What do they do?
Boy soldier = it is a child soldier. However, carrying out (being carrying out) is various. They can be made to prepare a meal, or arms can be given and making people kill, and it is in that you are made to help goods transportation.
It is not easy to kill people with arms. In order to sear the fear of a child, a medicine may be given or it may inject.
Reason which increased
Boy soldiers are increasing in number rapidly in recent years. Lightweight-ization of arms is raised as one of the reason of the. Old arms were too heavy and difficult to treat to the child. However, if it becomes light, a child will also be able to treat. For example, the automatic rifle called AK47 is often used in recent years. Since there is little failure and care is also very easy failure, handling is easy also for a boy soldier. Moreover, it is easy to treat him as a soldier in order to follow, shortly after a child threatens. In prolonged dispute, becoming a soldier may become a last means to obtain food.
What is needed to reduce them?
In order to reduce such a boy soldier, it is required to adopt to raise the participating minimum age to the battle which is in the Children's right first from less than 15 years old to less than 18 years old. And especially the thing for which it enables it to investigate a certain criminal liability is required for the person concerned who made the child the soldier.
