[Teen/VVP] Research and etc.
Thursday, we continued our research on the topics that we were assigned on Tuesday. My group, which included Ronald, Melanie, and myself, were supposed to look for where Child Soldiers are. We found.... over thirty countries, and it was not too difficult to find lists all over the Internet. Anyway, it was not hard to find the information, but after we did...that's when questions arose. The UN website and child-soldiers.org both identified Israel as a nation that had Child Soldiers--but after Idan said that it was not true...I decided to do a little research into it. Anyway, I found this on the child-soldier website: " 'I was detained on 18 March 2003... We are in a very small room with 11 people... We are allowed to use the bathroom only three times a day at specific times. Once a week we are allowed to take a 30-minute recess. The prison guards force us into shabeh position: they tie our hands up and one leg and then we have to face the wall.' 15-year-old boy arrested by Israeli forces, reporting on detention conditions in an Israeli settlement outside Ramallah, April 2003."
Apparently child-soldiers do exist in Israel/"Occupied Palestinian Territory". Anyway, apparently there is a long story behind it, and I'm not quiet sure I understand the whole thing so I will leave you to discover your own "truth" on the subject at matter. By the way...Sam us left early again. After that, we tried to brainstorm ideas for a story line based on the facts that we gathered together. My group, I thought it would be good to put in the part where a child soldier was kidnapping other children as a means to recruit new child soldiers to hit sympathy nerve in whoever is watching but I did like the other idea where the kids were sitting on the table with their family and then they were seen again as child soldiers with their military leaders. I like the idea of them holding guns at the dinner table instead of toys too, but I don't know if they should be sitting at the table with the leaders though. In some way, it makes some sense to have the military leaders sitting on a high table looking down at the kids who are on the floor eating together. But yeah, I don't know, I guess we just have to see what the majority agrees upon.
