Shah Bibi (article to Young Post)
There are many people suffering from the harmful effect from a war. Those who suffer the most are the most innocent people—children.
There are many children like Shah Bibi. Agnes is now a 14-year-old girl. When she was 10, she was abducted from her family’s vegetable garden by Loseph Kony’s notorious Lord’s Resistance Army. When she was 11, she was forced to kill another child who had tried to escape. When she was 12, she was raped by one of the rebel commanders who took her as one of her ‘wives’. The story told us that the war may bring serious psychological effects and mental stress. Just like what Agnes had faced, she was forced to kill other children. Imagine that you are Agnes, how fear and afraid will it be to you? It is like a sear in your heart. It is irremovable. The children had experienced that may go to two extreme: One is becoming very timid, who will lose their sense of security. One is becoming a merciless and ruthless person who may crime all the time and increase the rate of social unrest.
Besides, children may die because of malnutrition. The war would bring food shortage to children. Also, the war would bring diseases to the children. There are many harmful effects of war.
Therefore, we should do something to check the problem. I think the UNICEF should help the children to escape from the war countries in order to avoid the children suffering from war. Then, what should we do? We should donate some money to the organizations that solve the children who suffer from war. Agnew was lucky, she hot the help of “WAR CHILD” Organization. We should donate some money to the organization to save the children from the dilemma.
Children are innocent. In a war, they don’t know how to protect themselves. We have responsibility to avoid the tragedy that happen like Shah Bibi and Agnes had faced again!