Rwanda and Child Soldering

There are approximately 300,000 child soldier in the world today and 120,000 of these are present in Africa, Rwanda in one of the places in Africa with a very high ratio of child soldiers. These children are abducted and then brain washed and manipulated in order to make them killer, spies, messengers etc. They are given fire arms at such early age and trained to not feel anything when they kill someone. Most of the times these children are abducted but there are also times when they voluntarily come and join the groups in trying to escape the poverty as, as soldiers they do get food, shelter and medicines.

According to a survey about 20,000 child soldiers have been part of the warfare in Rwanda till date. Even though reports have been given by the government of Rwanda that there are no child soldiers in their...
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