Argue For or Against the Motion That Children Should Not Participate in Armed Conflicts. My chairman, members of the panel of judges, members of the panel of critics, distiinguished guest, ladies and gentlemen, and fellow debaters, I greet you all in the name of peace. I am here this day, upon this podium to support the motion that there should be a complete international ban on the use of children in armed conflicts.
War is everyday life for millions of children.
Some have never known any other life, they have grown up in the midst of civil wars, gorrila insurgency, on long term occupation by foreign army. Many children see the world suddenly turned upside-down when invasion, or ethnic cleansing forces them on to the roads as refugees or displaced persons, often separated from their families. More horrible is when this children are forced to take up arms by rebels or enrol in government service merely to defend themselves. Some whom become child soldiers are deliberately killed by security forces or some other opposite groups. Many are tortured or killed because of where they live or because of the politics, religion or ethnic origin of their family.