Baby Soldier...

odie

,South Africa

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200000 child soldiers still exist in South Africa. 200000! They drive into villages - roaring rap music coming from the trucks - shooting randomly at anything that moves, woman, children, men, babies, and animals… In the panic you find yourself face down in the dirt. Suddenly something pokes you in the side. You look up into the eyes of a child with a rifle to your head. Without a second thought, he pulls the trigger. So I saw a father staring into the eyes of a child so lost and broke by the things he’s been made to do, that he was slowly squeezing the trigger while his father kept screaming: “It’s me! It’s me!”, and the child, his son, struggling to recognize the familiar man staring into his eyes. These children were ripped from their villages - were they not instantly executed - and ‘trained’ to be the most vicious, emotionless killing machines. They get brainwashed and taught to rape, kill, beat, steal, execute, and torture anyone. They will shoot someone without the slightest hint of remorse I’m so safe - here in my house. Big brick walls protecting me. It disgusts me. The fact that I have never really suffered for even a day! These people, these children… these 11-year-old children and their families have gone beyond death. Their suffering has become a lifestyle. May we all feel guilty for having a life!