When You Choose Your Issue Blog: What is the issue? Why have you chosen it? Add pics/links

    We chose Child Soldiers as the issue we thought was the most interesting. With many children being forced to join the Myanmar government to fight the opposing army. Being stolen from their parents and placed into the front lines with guns in which they can barely handle. Treated like pests or rats, given little food to eat and water to drink. 

    We found this interesting to us because we wanted to know why would the government and the communists be so desperate to use children as a resource. And with strict rules and painful punishments some of the deaths weren't caused by a gun.

(A Child Soldier holding an AK-47 Assault Rifle)

    To complete our assignment we decided to write diary entries about our lives in different armies. Describing how we get captured and if we die or escape. Im will be writing from the perspective of a child in the LRA (Lords Resistance Army). I plan to at least describe some of the realistic events that happen inside the camps. And to tell a good story by making it sound like a kid who is actually getting punished or fighting on the front lines. 


    I also think that we might describe each other in our stories. If we see each other or help them. Talking about what happens to them to show that we are connected in our problems and situations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord's_Resistance_Army
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Kony