The brutal regions within many modern African nations are amongst the most ruthless places to subsist on the planet Earth. Some of the people live an existence that many of us in America wouldn't be able to thrive in for less than a week. They do not care about significance of life, they are constantly seeking their own self preservation, they destroy their own lands, they rape and enslave their own women, and exterminating the inhabitants of their lands means absolutely nothing to them except as a means to get whatever it is they want to achieve.

These people can be so heartless that their actions at times could be considered nothing less than gross abominations. They can show this contempt for their children when they sacrifice them to their own ideologies, long standing tribal conflicts, unending greed, and the desire for murder and death. In this presentation about the rehabilitation of child soldiers by the nations of the world, the focus will be on Africa since this is where the most extreme cases of this kind of reality exist. This is Africa in the 21st century and if the future generation of children aren't rehabilitated then this land will headed for certain doom.

Children are the future of any nation, society, ethnic group or people. They will control the future. How any child is raised will be reflected long into their adulthood. The situation in Africa will prove this point to be true. Many nations in Africa are undergoing massive upheavals in terms of leadership, government, resource management, and future viability as stable self ruling states. The next two generation of rulers must make changes in these lands in order to stabilize and revitalize the African continent. If they fail, then many nations on this continent will be subject to be dominated and controlled by foreign powers and unending ruthless dictators. This brief synopsis about the current state of Africa is relevant to the point that the nations of the world need to play a role in the rehabilitation of child soldiers in Africa.

The post colonial nations who once ruled the now independent states of Africa are the primary nations who should definitely be on the front lines in rehabilitating the ex children warriors in Africa. England and France are the two primary nations that should be held accountable in helping to push for this process. Portugal, Spain, and Italy should follow suite even though their involvement in colonialism was less extensive but still just as

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