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The contributing photographers are talented visionaries whose work speaks for itself. They have ventured to the remote and dangerous places where child soldiers live in order to bring this story of injustice to the world. Through their images, they have become the messengers of a crime that could otherwise be easily ignored. They invite us to consider realms far removed from our own, ones that we could not bear to see our own children inhabit. These photos are drawn from recent and current conflicts. The children's names have been changed to protect them from reprisals and ostracization.
As Under-Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, Radhika Coomaraswamy stated in her address to the Security Counsel in February 2008, "No one who has looked into the eyes of a child soldier can be at peace unless we rid this world of this scourge. No one who has held the hand of a young girl who has suffered multiple rapes can ever forget their duty to work for the protection of the vulnerable."
While the phenomenon of the child soldier is not new, its contemporary incarnation is especially chilling. The story these images tell is one of children manipulated by war criminals and subjected to unspeakable violence and abuse. Their faces depict the reality of a childhood lost. Instead of the frivolity and joy--or even the defiance and rebellion--of childhood, we see the deadly seriousness of the machinery of death in the hands of teenagers. Who will see past the grim confidence, the bravado, and the swagger to their origination in terrifying abductions and coerced recruitments? Who will look beyond their rifles and remember them as children? Precisely because we think we value childhood more than our forebears in the thirteenth century did, the figure of the child dressed and outfitted
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Photographs by: Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, Lynsey Addario, Martin Adler, Richard Butler, Francesco Cito, Gary Calton, Chris de Bode, Donna De Cesare, Miquel Dewever Plana, Tiane Doan na Champassak, Colin Finlay, Riccardo Gangale, Cedric Gerbehaye, Jan Grarup, Tim A. Hetherington, Rhodri Jones, Bob Koenig, Roger Lemoyne, Zed Nelson, Peter Mantello, Heather McClintock, Olivier Pin Fat, Giacomo Pirozzi, Q. Sakamaki, Marcelo Salinas, Dominic Sansoni, Guy Tillim, Sven Torfinn, Ami Vitale, Vincent van de Wijngaard, Tomas van Houtryve, Kadir van Lohuizen, Alvaro Ybarra-Zavala, Francesco ZizolaEssay by: Jo Becker, Jimmi Briggs, Dick Durbin, Emmanuel Jal, Michael Wessells"I would like to give you a message. Please do your best to tell the world what is happening to us, the children, so that other children don't have to pass through this violence."-A 15-year-old girl who escaped from the Lord's Resistance Army in UgandaUp to half a million children have been engaged in more than 85 conflicts worldwide. As armed conflict proliferates, increasing numbers of children are exposed to the brutalities of war. Boys and girls around the world are recruited to be child soldiers by armed forces and militant groups, either forcibly or voluntarily. Some are tricked into service by manipulative recruiters, others join in order to escape poverty or discrimination, while still others are outright abducted at school, on the streets, and at home. Aside from participating in combat, many are used for sexual purposes, made to lay and clear land mines, or employed as spies, messengers, porters, or servants. Kids have become the ultimate weapons of twenty-first-century war.Child Soldiersfocuses on countries with a history of child warfare, as captured by photographers and writers from across the globe. The book explores the children's time as combatants, as well as their demobilization and rehabilitation. Included are Tim Hetherington's photographs from Liberia; Roger Lemoyne and Cedric Gerbehaye's work from the Congo; Ami Vitale's series on child Maoist recruits in Nepal; and other work from Burma, Columbia, the Central African Republic, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, and Palestine. Onto the battlefields where children are kidnapped, brainwashed and made into killing machines. With images from an array of leading photo-journalists. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781576874554
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