Thursday, May 06, 2004

I'd like to write about Angola and the soldiers in Angola. I mean "soldiers" are young juveniles. I saw them on TV yesterday morning. The boy who were on TV was about our age and he had been a soldier. In Angola, many boys and girls, even the children around 8 had been forced to be the soldiers. They were compulsory left their families and traind to be the soldiers. During the conflict in Angola, they had to kill so many people and also many of them were killed. Why such young innocent childish soldiers had to do that, and be done that? I always ask "why" when I learn new innocent victims of conflicts. Then, are ex-soldiers happy now? The answer is yes and no. They are happy because they are alive and have their dreams but they aren't happy because they lost their friends and families and they have terrible nightmare bacause of such a horrifying experiences. The host of the TV program said that they(ex-soldiers) don't talk about their experiences because they are tortured the memory and they don't want people around them to know that they were ex-soldiers. They are still undermined by their memory of the conflict. The boy who used to be a soldier was grown up and started going to school. However only a few people can go to school and the illiteracy rate in Angola is low. Also, it was reported that there were a large number of landmines on its land. It showed many pictures of the injured Angolan. People start going to school The illiteracy rate in Angola is low. Refugees are still looking for their family members. I thought we all have to do something to save them. They need help. They need education, safe, and peace.

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