Niños soldados en africa

Revenge Paid with Blood
For the past 23 years children in Northern Uganda have been robbed of their childhood and forced to fight, kill, and risk their lives for the sake of one man’s greed. Children have endured pain and suffering most people haven’t had to endure in their entire lives. Day to day they suffer from physical injuries, life threatening diseases such as AIDS and Malaria, frompost-traumatic stress disorders and carry with them the guilt that is involved in killing and being part of a rebel group. This war is making children in the region of Northern Uganda vulnerable to premature death and future related issues as well as causing major issues in the Ugandan infrastructure. Child soldiers have been suffering from both physical and psychological effects due to theirinvolvement in the war and their lives being at risk and they are paying the ultimate price.
Child soldiers in Northern Uganda have been abducted for the last 23 years, and have been suffering from abuses in their integrity as children and as human beings. For these past 23 years, Northern Uganda has been suffering from an interminable war. The LRA or the Lord’s Resistance Army has been terrorizing thecitizens of Northern Uganda in order to send a message to the Government. Message that can be traced back to the 1980’s, to a woman called Alice Lakwena. Alice Lakwena that believed the Holy Spirit spoke to her and ordered her to overthrow the Ugandan government for being unjust to the Acholi, a native African tribe located in the areas of Northern Uganda who are specifically ruled and have adoctrine based on religious understandings and the word of the Holy Spirit. Lakwena and her followers, known as the Holy Spirit Movement, gained force as resentment toward the government increased. After Alice Lakwena was exiled from Uganda and there was no clear leader of this group, a man who claimed to be Lakwenas cousin took control of this group, and turned it into the LRA, his name is JosephKony. Professor Okeowo a Japanese African History professor says:
“The teenagers are among over 20,000 Ugandan children who have been abducted from their homes and schools during the ongoing 20 years of rebellion in this tiny East African nation nestled between Kenya and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Thousands of innocent civilians have died as a result of the conflict, and 1.5 million live indesolate camps for displaced persons” (Okeowo 16).
Thousands of children are being affected by this horrible event. 20,000 children from the ages of 8-15 have been taken away from their homes and are being forced to fight against their own government and their own people, just for the satisfaction of one man’s greed:
“Young boys were abducted and forced to become child soldiers, with childrenordered to shoot children who wouldn't take orders. The war that waged between the LRA and the Uganda government led to mass killings, destruction and the displacement of nearly 2 million people” (Lindstrom).
A child soldier suffers from severe physical injuries in the mist of battle; children are being affected by these wounds of battle throughout the 23 years that the war has been going on:“More than 90 % of the LRA's troops are children - terrorized through violence, sexual abuse and threats, then forced to kill. Many die at the hands of the LRA or in skirmishes with Government forces. Those who escape are severely traumatized. They can face rejection by their communities and may be charged with treason by the Government” (Coalition Stop the Use of Child Soldiers 13).
Children aredying at the hands of a terrorist and they suffer from mistreatment and most importantly threats. Children are forced to fight and they are threatened to kill or else be killed. They suffer from other people hitting, harassing, abusing them and violent acts from the external force Joseph Kony who takes control over their lives and the childhood. Child soldiers who have been released from the...