Loss of Innocence

2003: 500,000 children served in army/ rebel groups Conflicts have created 1 million orphans 10 million children have serious psychological trauma Child soldiers are often given drugs to help them cope with their emotions making it easier for them to kill. Over 50 countries recruit children (under age 18) into their armed forces

2003: 500,000 children served in army/ rebel groups

Conflicts have created 1 million orphans

10 million children have serious psychological trauma

Child soldiers are often given drugs to help them cope with their emotions making it easier for them to kill.

Over 50 countries recruit children (under age 18) into their armed forces

Poverty Only option Naïve Don’t know between right & wrong Easy to Manipulate Forced Die or Join

Poverty

Only option

Naïve

Don’t know between right & wrong

Easy to Manipulate

Forced

Die or Join

"I did bad things in the bush and I saw very bad things done to both children and adults” (BBC) Alhaji from rebel group from Sierra Leone “ Other trainees, if they were caught trying to run away, their hands and feet were beaten with a bamboo stick and then put in shackles and beaten and poked again and again and they then were taken to the lock up.” Boy from Myanmur, abducted at 13. “ One boy tried to escape, but he was caught. They made him eat a mouthful of red pepper, and five people were beating him.” Susan 12, Uganda

"I did bad things in the bush and I saw very bad things done to both children and adults” (BBC)

Alhaji from rebel group from Sierra Leone

“ Other trainees, if they were caught trying to run away, their hands and feet were beaten with a bamboo stick and then put in shackles and beaten and poked again and again and they then were taken to the lock up.”

Boy from Myanmur, abducted at 13.

“ One boy tried to escape, but he was caught. They made him eat a mouthful of red pepper, and five people were beating him.”

Susan 12, Uganda

Emmanuel Jal, former Ugandan child soldier raps: "My dreams are like torment, My every moment. Voices of my brain Of friends that were slain, Friends who died by my side of starvation In the burning jungle and the desert plain.”

Emmanuel Jal, former Ugandan child soldier raps:

"My dreams are like torment, My every moment. Voices of my brain Of friends that were slain, Friends who died by my side of starvation In the burning jungle and the desert plain.”

# of children (under 18) Country Year

SLIDE : WHAT: REFERENCE: 1 Picture http://labspace.open.ac.uk/file.php/1962/Figure-14.jpg 2 Picture http://www.soschildrensvillages.org.uk/imgs/content/sudan-child-soldier.jpg Stats http://se2.isn.ch/serviceengine/FileContent? serviceID=7&fileid=3F78F722-5602-D069-F013-F8BEC51E605A&lng=en 3 Information http://se2.isn.ch/serviceengine/FileContent? serviceID=7&fileid=3F78F722-5602-D069-F013-F8BEC51E605A&lng=en 4 Map www.hrw.org/campaigns/ crp/crp-map.htm 5 Picture http://www.discoverthejourney.org/blog/images/drc/drc-2.jpg 6 Stories www.un.org/works/goingon/soldiers/goingon_soldiers.html Picture http://three65.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/child-soldier-afghanistan.jpg 7 Picture 1 http://www.noblepr.co.uk/Press_Releases/ada/images/warchild/ss6.jpg Picture 2 http://www.anaimation.com/web_publicity/sonic_360/december_2007 /images/emmanuel_jal.jpg Quote http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/10/10/dougherty.rapper/index.html 8 Information http://en.kindernothilfe.org/multimedia/kmdb/%5B005%5D/ 5811_326x397_326x397_114x2-width-326-height-397-view_image-1-called_by- knhfs-original_site--original_page-105.jpg 9 Picture 1 http://library.thinkquest.org/06aug/01032/images/pic8.jpg Picture 2 http://www.ntpi.org/assets/images/youth1a.jpg Picture 3 http://en.kindernothilfe.org/multimedia/kmdb/%5B005%5D/ 5811_326x397_326x397_114x2-width-326-height-397-view_image-1-called_by- knhfs-original_site--original_page-105.jpg Picture 4 http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/04/ africa_sierra_leone0s_civil_war/img/1.jpg Picture 5 http://digmedia.asu.edu/michelle/wp-content/uploads/child-soldier.jpg MUSIC: EMINEM: LIKE TOY SOLDIER

SLIDE : WHAT: REFERENCE:

1 Picture http://labspace.open.ac.uk/file.php/1962/Figure-14.jpg

2 Picture http://www.soschildrensvillages.org.uk/imgs/content/sudan-child-soldier.jpg

Stats http://se2.isn.ch/serviceengine/FileContent?

serviceID=7&fileid=3F78F722-5602-D069-F013-F8BEC51E605A&lng=en

3 Information http://se2.isn.ch/serviceengine/FileContent?

serviceID=7&fileid=3F78F722-5602-D069-F013-F8BEC51E605A&lng=en

4 Map www.hrw.org/campaigns/ crp/crp-map.htm

5 Picture http://www.discoverthejourney.org/blog/images/drc/drc-2.jpg

6 Stories www.un.org/works/goingon/soldiers/goingon_soldiers.html

Picture http://three65.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/child-soldier-afghanistan.jpg

7 Picture 1 http://www.noblepr.co.uk/Press_Releases/ada/images/warchild/ss6.jpg

Picture 2 http://www.anaimation.com/web_publicity/sonic_360/december_2007

/images/emmanuel_jal.jpg

Quote http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/10/10/dougherty.rapper/index.html

8 Information http://en.kindernothilfe.org/multimedia/kmdb/%5B005%5D/

5811_326x397_326x397_114x2-width-326-height-397-view_image-1-called_by-

knhfs-original_site--original_page-105.jpg

9 Picture 1 http://library.thinkquest.org/06aug/01032/images/pic8.jpg

Picture 2 http://www.ntpi.org/assets/images/youth1a.jpg

Picture 3 http://en.kindernothilfe.org/multimedia/kmdb/%5B005%5D/

5811_326x397_326x397_114x2-width-326-height-397-view_image-1-called_by-

knhfs-original_site--original_page-105.jpg

Picture 4 http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/04/

africa_sierra_leone0s_civil_war/img/1.jpg

Picture 5 http://digmedia.asu.edu/michelle/wp-content/uploads/child-soldier.jpg MUSIC: EMINEM: LIKE TOY SOLDIER