Child soldiers.
At the beginning.
Children began to be use as child soldiers during Secession War, in 1860 in U.S.A. and during the Second World War. They were kill by German army and little survived.
Today.
The United Nations Convention consider there are 300,000 child soldiers in activity today in the world. They are usually use for civil wars or by criminals paramilitary groups. Girls are also be as suicides members against the government of Sri-Lanka.
How ?
Some children are voluntaries because their family are very poor or they are fascinated by the military life or for the revenge or so that their family is proud of them. Lots of children are also kidnap.
Point of view of soldiers, reasons are evident. Children aren't expensive for the food and they are docile and suggestible. And they are very efficacies on the grounds. And more, children can't escape. Children become quickly war machines. A rich child has less luck to be recruit than a poor child.
Why ?
There are lots of child soldiers because the politic and economic of countries concerned are fragile. Lots of countries fail the education right so since they don't go in the school they have to find an occupation. Engagement in the army is then an alternative to civil work. In 1998, we considered there were 500,000,000 smalls arms in the world, and there were 100,000,000 in Africa. Children easy used this arms. The status of girls (and boys) is particularly because they are sexually exploited.
Where ?
Afghanistan ; Algeria ; Angola ; Burma ; Burundi ; Bosnia and Herzegovina ; Colombia ; Cambodia ; Eritrea ; Ethiopia ; Russian Federation ; Lebanon ; Liberia ; Solomon Islands ; India ; Indonesia ; Iran ;Iraq ; Mexico ; Nepal ; Uganda ; Uzbekistan ; Pakistan ; Papua ; New Guinea ; Peru ; Philippines ; Democratic Republic of the Congo ; Rwanda ; Sierra Leone ; Somalia ; Sudan ; Sri Lanka ; Tajikistan ; Chad ; Occupied Palestinian Territories ; East Timor ; Turkey ; Yugoslavia.