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“This is what the war has done to me. Now I want to destroy because of it. There is such hate and rage inside me now. The Angkar has taught me to hate so deeply that I now know I have the power to destroy and kill.”

War Autobiography Guerra Cambodia Child Soldier

Book:First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

Source: First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

“Our guns were still strapped onto our backs, because a gun meant life. Without it there was no life in the LRA. After crossing the water and walking for a long time, there was a whisper in my heart, telling me that if we kept the guns we would get killed. I was learning to listen to this gentle voice that spoke to my heart. This time what was said was hard to accept. I didn't know how I would convince my friends to throw away what seemed to be their last hope. The voice would not leave me alone. It continued to whisper in my ears to drop the guns.”

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Author:Grace Akallo

“When I am saying all of this, she is just looking at me and I am seeing water in her eye. So I am saying to her, if I am telling this to you it will be making you to think that I am some sort of beast or devil. Amy is never saying anything when I am saying this, but the water is just shining in her eye. And I am saying to her, fine. I am all of this thing. I am all of this thing, but I am also having mother once, and she is loving me.”

War Childhood Trauma Mother S Love Child Soldier

Author:uzodinma iweala

“It's a Vietnamese soup that answers the question, 'What happens when a former child soldier pours hot rain water over fish nightmares.' It's delicious and I can't stop eating it, that's what happens.”

Children I Can Happens Water Answers Eating Rain Hot Soldier Fishes Former Nightmare Soup Delicious Vietnamese Rain Water Child Soldier

Author:Kyle Kinane

“A lot of child soldiers lose their minds.”

Mind Children Loses Soldier Child Soldier

Author:Emmanuel Jal

“Any child soldier has to go through a lot of love, care and understanding to become normal.”

Children Care Understanding Normal Soldier Child Soldier

Author:Emmanuel Jal

“I’m trying to learn more about international law to understand why we don’t have better solutions for conflict - for dictators or aggressors that are hurting or raping children or using them as child soldiers. Why can’t we have an international community handle these things in a swift, efficient manner?”

Trying Children Law Community Hurt Conflict Solutions Soldier International Handle Efficient Dictator International Community International Law Aggressors Child Soldier

Author:Angelina Jolie

“For a man to be a man, did he have to be a soldier, or at least prepare himself for war? For a woman to be a woman, did she have to be a mother, or at least prepare herself to raise children? Soldiers and mothers were the sacrificial couple, honored by statues in the park, lauded for their willingness to give their lives to others.”

Men Giving Children War Mother Couple Raises Soldier Parks Willingness Honored Statues Be A Man Child Soldier

Author:Carol Gilligan

“We live in an idiotic capitalist self-indulgent society where the sex life of a pop star is more important than impending starvation, land mines and child soldiers in Africa, or more interesting than the world's biggest man-made natural disaster in oil fields of the Middle East.”

“A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.”

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Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Universal ratification of the Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict will establish an international moral consensus that no child should take part in hostilities or be involuntarily recruited and that former child soldiers should be assisted by their governments after a life of violence and distress.”

Should Children Government Moral Violence Youth Conflict Universal Soldier International Former Distress Consensus Hostility Involvement Optional Protocol Armed Conflict Child Soldier

Author:Ban Ki-moon

“Over 20 million children of conflict are out of school. Education is often forgotten.”

Children School Millions Conflict Forgotten School Education Child Soldier

Author:Angelina Jolie

“The saddest sight these days is the image of hundreds of thousands of children kidnapped and lured into being child soldiers from the age of eight.”

Children Age Sight Slavery Soldier Eight These Days Saddest Kidnapped Child Soldier

Author:Roger Moore

“Compelled to become instruments of war, to kill and be killed, child soldiers are forced to give violent expression to the hatreds of adults”

Giving Children War Hate Force Expression Becoming Adults Hatred Slavery Instruments Killing Soldier Violent Compelled Child Soldier

Author:Olara Otunnu

“It may seem unimaginable to you that child soldiers exist and yet the reality for many rebel and gang leaders, and even state governments, is that there is no more complete end-to-end weapon system in the inventory of war machines than the child soldierMan has created the ultimate cheap, expendable, yet sophisticated human weapon at the expense of humanity's own future: its children.”

“It's somewhat disquieting that the same parents and educators who are horrified by the notion of child soldiers have bestowed upon 'The Hunger Games' a double mantle of critical praise and global bestsellerdom.”

Children Games Parent Praise Notion Soldier Hunger Critical Educator Child Soldier

Author:Kenneth Oppel