Girl child soldiers

Safety. Should anyone be asked about his/her opinion on the issue of child soldiers, one concern that will certainly surface, whether they find child soldiering justifiable or not, is the safety and security of child soldiers. A former child soldier articulates the sensitivity of the matter. “You have a better life because you are safe,” goes a former girlchild soldier’s message to children her age.1 Child soldiers serving either government paramilitary units or revolutionary armed groups are constantly under threat. Whether they work as messengers, lookouts or actual combatants, most of the children’s everyday living are characterized with rife anxiety and unexpressed troubles. Some directly experience injuries, disasters, deaths. Situations of this sort, after all, involve armed clashes, ambushes and killings.