cant really seem to find a definite answer… why does the use of child soldiers seem so widespread specifically in certain recent African conflicts vs revolutions anywhere else or earlier in time? In addition how did this practice become so popular/widespread in the first place??
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Cheap and easy to indoctrinate. They are expendable, you give them a new life and they quickly embrace it. They in some ways are more willing to endure shit for shitty reasons because they don’t know much different. Especially get them drunk and give drugs when possible will help ruin them for the gain of an insurgency. Local warlords take over a couple villages, it’s going to be much harder to get a 20 year old who hates you to support you than it is an 8 year old, even if you just killed his/her parents.
Beasts of no nation is an interesting but dark movie about it.
You see it in SE Asia as well, mostly ending around the time frame of pol pot (one of the worst people in history largely unknown to a lot of the world) and kind of surprisingly not as much the Middle East but it still happens.
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