This article is dedicated to children growing up in Afghanistan, who are taken against their will, brainwashed and sent to the war front.
Afghanistan has been in a state of war for many years now.
Armed forces conflict in Afghanistan.
In many parts of the world, as in Afghanistan, the forceful transfer of minors to the war front is carried out intentionally by the armed forces.
Children under 18 are obliged to take part in combat operations, instead of enjoying life as befits their age.
A large majority of these children are killed at the front, while those that survive face several psychosomatic problems and often become victims of exploitation by adults.
The armed forces use children to retrieve shells and weapons from battlefields, detect mines, and remove the injured from the front, but also as human shields. This last use results in serious injury, meaning that those children are no longer able to lead normal lives. There is also proof that children have been used by armed forces in terrorist suicide operations with explosives. These children usually come from very poor families and take part in terrorist or military activities because of countless promises of financial compensation.
Sending children to the front is a violation of their basic rights.
For example, not only are they denied basic education but also the right to act out of free will and decide their own fate.
Article 38 of the International Convention on the Rights of the Child states that minors under the age of 15 must on no account take part in any military action, and that if conflict breaks out in their own country, their government is obliged to offer them special protection.
I have friends who have been maimed in such military operations and are sadly no longer able to lead a normal life.
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