Guilt On Child Soldiers Essay

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The feeling of guilt that child suffer can be intelligible, this does not conduct to the conclusion that their feelings are morally appropriate. Writers D’Arms and Jacobson give the example of envy to illustrate: “it may be intelligible to feel envy when someone has something that you want for yourself, but it does not mean that your envy is thus good to feel.” It sounds heartless to suggest that child soldiers should feel guilt, especially with all the extreme conditions they live through. people assume and think that encouraging child soldiers to feel guilty gives them more reasons to suffer and may even hinder their own recovery.
The heartbreaker story of Kabili, a child soldier during the second Sudanese war is a clear illustration of how
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His story is not so tragic compared with the “Lost Boys of Sudan.” A group of twenty thousand children who disappear, displaced and orphaned during this conflict in the West. Kabili tells in his story how they became soldiers in South Sudan, there was a heterogeneous population before they entered military organizations. A chain of events that led Kabili before to become a soldier was linked to the history, in 1956 Sudan became independent from the United Kingdom, starting a war that would last eleven years, from 1956 to 1972. It takes two decades until the government of Sudan and the SPLA sign the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA). When war came to Yei, Kabila's hometown, they fled to Uganda, Kabili grew in the Koboko District, which was the base of a large enclave of Sudanese refugees. During the conflict over two million people died, some of them directly, other because of famine and illness; but this wasn’t the end of Kabili, after surviving the war, refugees received Educational opportunities in schools for “unaccompanied boys.” These are how war affects the life of a little boy, survive this type of conflict was already gain, the next step was to rebuild their lives. After the war, South Sudan and their government's organizations implement policies and regulation against children soldiers;