Children As “Weapon Systems”
A general dedicates his life to ending the use of child soldiers worldwide April 2011
Imagine. You are a soldier, trained to kill the enemy. On the battlefield, just as you are about to shoot an enemy combatant, you suddenly see in your gun sights that the soldier is a mere child “in the tattered remnants of a military uniform with dozens more children behind.” What would you do?
This is the ethical dilemma that Roméo Dallaire asks his readers to ponder in his latest…