child soldiers - TV

http://kr.youtube.com/watch?v=gUcVZXxGvXk
The characteristic of TV is that it delivers information to audience in the world. Especially, TV news makes the audience to realize the issues that are going around the world, and when they are delivering the issue, they are not biased or prejudiced. They are not the ones who judge the issue. It’s the audience who make a decision whether the issue right or wrong. TV news is just helping the audience to recognize the news in different categories such as government, weather or scientific.
The child soldiers issue is also delivered to different age groups of audience by TV news. This CNN news talks about the issue by interviewing a kid from Africa who were actually one of the child soldiers. He talks about the story how he became a child soldiers and how the other soldiers treated him. One of the shocking things he said is that soldiers gave him a choice either to stay or to leave. However, when his friends decided to leave, the soldiers killed them and showed their dead bodies to other kids. They said this is how they will end up if they decide to leave. The soldiers also sexually abused little girls who are only aged under 15. By his interview, people get to know the situation of child soldiers in Africa. This interview is more realistic and trustful than just showing the videos of child soldiers because the boy who actually experienced everything is telling the information.
By watching this video, I recognized the current situation in Africa. I realized how child soldiers are being used as weapons of government. They learn how to shoot people before they learn how to write and read. They were shooting people without knowing who they are. The children are aged under 15. They don’t even go to school in that age. They are supposed to in the classroom and learn different kinds of subjects, and not in the war to kill others. In Amnesty International, I and other students wrote letters to the government in order to release the children. At that time, I didn’t know how serious this issue was, but now, I know its seriousness, and I know that people should recognize the issue and come up with the solutions. I should be more active in Amnesty activity so people in the world can help the children.