They are often placed in the combat situation used as messengers, spies, porters, servants to clear and lay the landmines. Such children have their child hood robbed of and they are exposed to physical and psychological suffering and terrible danger. At the same time the recruitment of those under 15 is regarded as a war crime. In the international law, the involvement and participation of children under eighteen years old in an armed conflict is totally unacceptable and prohibited. Other self recruits do it out of revenge they watched their family members being murdered in cold blood and others being raped and the anger makes them to join the army and militia group t seek revenge for their loved ones(Wessells, 456). Thousands of children recruited are abducted from home, streets and schools. In other cases the children are forcefully recruited and trained to be militia men. Some children are born and they experience the war from tender age, as a result war becomes part of them. In such countries the rate of insecurity is usually so high that the children cannot go school and as a result they voluntarily join the militia groups since it is the only activity they can actively be involved in. This situation is particularly common in Africa and Arabic countries which are constantly in war. There are hundreds of thousands of children from all over the world who are forced and recruited into paramilitaries, civil militia, government armed forces and other armed groups.
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