Chapters 8-9- Like I said in my last blog these children will and are scared for a lifetime, but when you have to kill another child and are forced into it the child has no way of coming back. The mental scare’s it leaves on the children is just awful. Romeo goes on to tell us his story; he was sitting doing his usual two hour stretch of sentry duty, when it started raining very hard so he went back to his tent, minutes later “rebels” had attacked his camp. When the rebels came running past him Romeo hide when he saw his chance he turned around and opened fire on them, only doing what he was trained to do. After shooting he hide until everyone was killed. Later Romeo went to check on who he had shot, it turned out to be a young teenager thirteen to fourteen years, and a smaller girl. It turned out that Romeo shot a girl dressed as a rebel acting as a warrior trying to protect the children. Romeo stated that he never wanted to shoot them, but it was what was programmed into him, he had to. It was either that or he would have to face awful consequences later. He did everything to try to tell himself it wasn’t him who shot them, and it wasn’t his fault, but whatever he could never forgive himself. He was paralyzed for a long time not wanting to talk or move, because he was scared for life. It is just heart breaking not only for the people around the child soldiers because they have to live in fear of getting killed, but also for the child soldiers. They are forced to kill innocent people, because awful men program it into them.
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