Comments on: Child soldiers - whose responsibility? http://www.thelancetstudent.com/2007/08/01/child-soldiers-whose-responsibility/ Thelancetstudent.com is a recently established website for students in medicine and related health areas, with a particular emphasis on global health. In the student podcast, Editor Rhona MacDonald highlights new content and interviews student authors of a key article published that week. Sat, 22 Nov 2008 05:40:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: animesh.singh http://www.thelancetstudent.com/2007/08/01/child-soldiers-whose-responsibility/#comment-277 animesh.singh Tue, 06 Nov 2007 10:43:58 +0000 http://www.thelancetstudent.com/2007/08/01/child-soldiers-whose-responsibility/#comment-277 Hi Aoife, This article is moving the mankind, showing the people to which magnitude children are used. Solving the regional problems can solve the problems for humans as a whole but as far as atrocities on children is concerned this article can emotionally move the mankind and help in minimizing the onslaughts on children. 'Child soldiers' is the most pathetic way to use children and is the worst form of child labor. As far as I know children are recruited even by the government in Nepal, Srilanka, Chad etc. LTTE in Srilanka, Angola, Colombia and in many African countries children are used. Great to see this article written by you. Thanks Animesh animesh.singh@yahoo.com Hi Aoife,
This article is moving the mankind, showing the people to which magnitude children are used. Solving the regional problems can solve the problems for humans as a whole but as far as atrocities on children is concerned this article can emotionally move the mankind and help in minimizing the onslaughts on children.
‘Child soldiers’ is the most pathetic way to use children and is the worst form of child labor.
As far as I know children are recruited even by the government in Nepal, Srilanka, Chad etc. LTTE in Srilanka, Angola, Colombia and in many African countries children are used.
Great to see this article written by you.
Thanks
Animesh
animesh.singh@yahoo.com

]]> By: ugm3scw http://www.thelancetstudent.com/2007/08/01/child-soldiers-whose-responsibility/#comment-13 ugm3scw Sat, 11 Aug 2007 09:54:17 +0000 http://www.thelancetstudent.com/2007/08/01/child-soldiers-whose-responsibility/#comment-13 Every action has a reaction.. the UK and other countries should be more responsible in its sale of arms in all cases, regardless of whether child soldiers are involved. The fact that child soldiers stir up more emotion and there is more stark opposition to fighting by children means that we can highlight the use of child soldiers to discourage the sale of arms to warring states. Should strategies to address the problem of child soldiers be aiming just to remove child soldiers from these situations, or should they be more holistic, aiming more at the root of the problem? Maybe Aoife is suggesting that we have to accept that many conflicts won't be solved for many years/ever, so we have to deal as best we can with the situation? Every action has a reaction.. the UK and other countries should be more responsible in its sale of arms in all cases, regardless of whether child soldiers are involved. The fact that child soldiers stir up more emotion and there is more stark opposition to fighting by children means that we can highlight the use of child soldiers to discourage the sale of arms to warring states.

Should strategies to address the problem of child soldiers be aiming just to remove child soldiers from these situations, or should they be more holistic, aiming more at the root of the problem? Maybe Aoife is suggesting that we have to accept that many conflicts won’t be solved for many years/ever, so we have to deal as best we can with the situation?

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