Sentences with phrase «become child soldiers»

Now there are a billion teenagers and they could just as easily become child soldiers and drug dealers as innovators and the owners of small companies in favelas in Brazil.

She worked with those in the rural communities who had suffered the worst acts of violence during the war; as well as with «Taylor's Boys,» who where the children Taylor's men had abducted and forced to become child soldiers.

When James was just 13, he fled his home country to avoid being forced to become a child soldier.

Solomon's son is picked up by the RUF and becomes a child soldier in the uprising.

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Joseph Kony, an African warlord who has kidnapped children and forced them to become soldiers for decades, was the face of a 30 - minute YouTube video that went viral back in March 2012.

A viral video has captured widespread attention across social media outlets over an effort to arrest Joseph Kony, head of the Lord's Resistance Army that abducts and forces children to become soldiers.

Children have become soldiers of choice.

There's certainly no disputing that one of the breakout stars of Cannes this year is Antonythasan Jesuthasan, a former child soldier with the Sri Lankan militant group Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, who fled the country in the late 1980s and eventually made his way to France, where he became an acclaimed playwright, essayist and novelist.

The one instance of a sympathetic character within the bloodshed is Benjamin (Basil Wallace), who helps former child soldiers recover, but even he becomes a victim of the violence.

One of these child soldiers, we hear, was the man who would become Vlad the Impaler (Luke Evans), heretofore known as VTI for short.

As the writers turn from Snow White to Hans Christian Andersen's Snow Queen story (or perhaps Disney's Frozen), a jilted Freya creates perpetual winter in an icy kingdom where she rules over kidnapped children who she trains to become hardened soldiers forbidden to feel love.

Children have become soldiers of choice.

The story delves into some surprisingly serious realms and takes an altogether darker tone such as dealing child soldiers, while also attempting to mix in some of the typical Kojima madness that has become the calling card of Metal Gear Solid.

The RUF became notorious for horrific abuses, including sexual violence, cutting off limbs and forcibly recruiting child soldiers.

The official Metal Gear Twitter account responded to several inquiries about The Definitive Edition, with many players wondering if Konami had planned to revive a scrapped third chapter in the game that would have seen Eli — a child soldier who later becomes Solid Snake's nemesis — escape from the Diamond Dogs and launch a large - scale attack of his own.