DontTakeMyChildCampaign Uncategorized / Tweet Now! Your Voice is the only hope for Oromo Child Soldiers! Imagine yourself at 8 years-old in the frontlines of a war used as a human shield. Imagine watching children your age shot right in front of you and that body being disposed of on the field, with no honor AT ALL. #DontTakeMyChild @RobbieGramer @Nisha_Varia @WCCO Share on X The #Ethiopia/n forces are dehumanizing one the most vulnerable and powerless groups of people. These children have no rights to determine their right to survival. The world can not turn a blind eye. #DontTakeMyChild @ReutersAfrica @Faiza_Mahamud @nickschifrin @CNN @BBCAfrica Share on X In 2000, the United Nations adopted an Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict. The protocol prohibits the forced recruitment of children under the age of 18 or their use in hostilities. #DontTakeMyChild… Share on X The ILO Convention on the Worst Forms of Child Labor prohibits the forced or compulsory recruitment of children under the age of 18 for use in armed conflict. #DontTakeMyChild #OromoProtests @ReutersAfrica @Faiza_Mahamud @nickschifrin @CNN @BBCAfrica @StarTribune Share on X #Ethiopia, child soldiers in third world countries will not have access to rehabilitation programs to help them locate their families, get back into school, receive vocational training, and re-enter civilian life. #DontTakeMyChild #OromoProtests @save_children @UNHumanRights… Share on X Once recruited, child soldiers may serve as messengers or spies. Children like Umer are pressed into combat, where they are forced to the front lines. https://t.co/fUHNw1Yr54?amp=1 #DontTakeMyChild #OromoProtests @SFRCdems @RepGregoryMeeks Share on X In Ethiopia, children in the Bale zone are rounded up and forced to fight for Abiy’s regime. https://t.co/fUHNw1Yr54?amp=1 #DontTakeMyChild #OromoProtests @SenatorMenendez @RepGregoryMeeks @antonioguterres Share on X Although there are no exact figures of child soldiers recruited by the ENDF, it is expected thousands of children will be forced to the front lines, as conflict intensifies. #DontTakeMyChild #OromoProtests @ReutersAfrica @Faiza_Mahamud @nickschifrin @CNN @BBCAfrica @StarTribune Share on X As the armed conflict increases in Ethiopia, Oromia’s future is shunned by the forced recruitment of our future. The @UN must act immediately to put a stop to this malicious campaign. #DontTakeMyChild #OromoProtests @save_children @UNHumanRights @HRW @ReutersAfrica Share on X Some children under the age of 10 are forced to put their life in danger for a war they did not ask to be part of! This issue deserves to have attention. The international community must act before it is too late! #DontTakeMyChild #OromoProtests @UN @HRW @WarChildCan… Share on X Children who are poor, displaced from their homes or live in a combat zone are more likely to be forcibly recruited. That accounts for more than 50% of the nation. #DontTakeMyChild #OromoProtests @ReutersAfrica @Faiza_Mahamud @nickschifrin @CNN @BBCAfrica @StarTribune Share on X Young girls and women are also at risk of being forcibly recruited by the ENDF to fight or for other purposes. They are extremely at risk to SGBV. #DontTakeMyChild #OromoProtests @The_Advocates @StarTribune @BBCAfrica @UNHumanRights @WarChildCan @HouseForeign @HRW Share on X These innocent children are scared. Just like many of us, they dreamt of a future to help their families financially. Save our children from this brutal war. #DontTakeMyChild #OromoProtests @SenatorMenendez @RepGregoryMeeks @antonioguterres @HouseForeign @SFRCdems @AsstSecStateAF Share on X Ethiopian Government is kidnapping innocent Oromo Youth to use them as a war shield. #DontTakeMyChild #OromoProtests @SenatorMenendez @RepGregoryMeeks @antonioguterres @HouseForeign @SFRCdems @AsstSecStateAF Share on X We urge the Ethiopian gov’t to immediately stop all child rights violations, retain, and enact domestic legislation criminalizing the six grave violations. #DontTakeMyChild #OromoProtests @ReutersAfrica @Faiza_Mahamud @nickschifrin @CNN @BBCAfrica @StarTribune Share on X We urge the Ethiopian gov’t to promote all aspects of the Child Rights Law. #DontTakeMyChild #OromoProtests @The_Advocates @StarTribune @BBCAfrica @UNHumanRights @WarChildCan @HouseForeign @HRW @Faiza_Mahamud @nickschifrin @CNN Share on X We urge the Ethiopian gov’t to engage collectively in the protection of children from the ravages of conflict, including the prevention of their recruitment and use. #DontTakeMyChild #OromoProtests @SenatorMenendez @RepGregoryMeeks @antonioguterres @HouseForeign @AsstSecStateAF Share on X Violence against children including their use and abuse by parties to armed conflict in Oromia must stop. The children of Oromia have the right to no less. #DontTakeMyChild #OromoProtests @SenatorMenendez @RepGregoryMeeks @antonioguterres @HouseForeign @SFRCdems @AsstSecStateAF Share on X Due to the ongoing conflict, children's right to live is being taken away by state sponsored parties. They have so much more to live for. #DontTakeMyChild #OromoProtests @SenatorMenendez @RepGregoryMeeks @antonioguterres @HouseForeign @SFRCdems @AsstSecStateAF Share on X A typical 10 year-old child goes to school and plays with their friends with very few to worry about. In Oromia, the ENDF forcefully use children as shields in their bloody war. #DontTakeMyChild #OromoProtests @SenatorMenendez @antonioguterres @HouseForeign @CNN Share on X Forced child soldiers who survive armed conflict frequently suffer psychiatric illness, poor literacy and numeracy, and behavioral problems such as heightened aggression. #DontTakeMyChild #OromoProtests @ReutersAfrica @Faiza_Mahamud @nickschifrin @CNN @BBCAfrica @StarTribune Share on X “States Parties shall take all feasible measures to ensure that members of their armed forces who have not attained the age of 18 years do not take a direct part in hostilities.” - OHCHR (Article 1) #DontTakeMyChild #OromoProtests @The_Advocates @StarTribune @UNHumanRights… Share on X The children of Oromia have been abused, ignored and forced to fight - this should not be their fate. End the recruitment of child soldiers! #DontTakeMyChild #OromoProtests @The_Advocates @StarTribune @UNHumanRights @WarChildCan @HouseForeign @SenatorMenendez Share on X In a lawless country like Ethiopia, the child has only two options: to fight or to die. Let’s not cut their future short. Let them live the life they deserve. #DontTakeMyChild #OromoProtests @The_Advocates @StarTribune @UNHumanRights @WarChildCan @HouseForeign @SenatorMenendez Share on X It is pure greed to financially blackmail children into a war in hopes they can support their families. Young girls like Xuumee is an example. #DontTakeMyChild #OromoProtests @The_Advocates @StarTribune @UNHumanRights @WarChildCan @HouseForeign @SenatorMenendez(Oromo Child… Share on X Abiy regime is using child soldiers in a current war. These boys and girls, some as young as 8 years old, serve in Ethiopian government forces and armed Amhara terrorists groups. They are fighting on the front lines and forced to participate in suicide missions. #DontTakeMyChild Share on X Government forces are detaining, starving, bombing and recruiting child soldiers as young as 8 years-old as human shields. They are in fear. Save our children! #Don'tTakeMyChild #OromoProtests @The_Advocates @nickschifrin @CNN @BBCAfrica @HouseForeign @SenatorMenendez Share on X The ENDF have been using children within their army. In particular, they're using child soldiers as a first line of defense against #Tigray|an forces, with the children being the first sent to fight while the rest of the army follows behind. #DontTakeMyChild #OromoProtests @WOCC Share on X Ethiopian government is abducting Oromo Children's, for military suicide missions. #DontTakeMyChild #DontTakeMyChild #OromoProtests @ReutersAfrica @Faiza_Mahamud @nickschifrin @CNN @BBCAfrica @StarTribune @The_Advocates Share on X This video is proof of many hidden stories of our children taken away from our mothers forced to fight in a war. https://twitter.com/omarhuseiin/status/1456357674291892224?s=20 #DontTakeMyChild #OromoProtests @ReutersAfrica @Faiza_Mahamud @CNN Share on X In the eyes of the Ethiopian government, Oromo childrens’ bodies have lost their dignity as they use their bodies as covers. Child soldiers are more often killed or injured than adult soldiers on the front line. #DontTakeMyChild #OromoProtests @The_Advocates @StarTribune @CNN Share on X Military conscription in #Ethiopia does not give a sense of calm that the government tries to portray. The government is setting these children up for death. https://twitter.com/omarhuseiin/status/1456357674291892224?s=20 #DontTakeMyChild #OromoProtests @SenatorMenendez… Share on X The pathological and genocidal Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is forcing and sending children as young as 8 years old to suicide missions. Save our children! #DontTakeMyChild #OromoProtests @save_children @UNHumanRights @HRW @ReutersAfrica @CNN @BBCAfrica Share on X World leaders, please ACT NOW. Our children are our future. They deserve the right to life just like any other ordinary child. Save our children. #DontTakeMyChild #OromoProtests @save_children @UNHumanRights @HRW @ReutersAfrica @CNN @BBCAfrica @The_Advocates Share on X The #Ethiopia/n forces shall take accountability for the forced conscription of Oromo children where they are set up to die. #DontTakeMyChild #OromoProtests @SenatorMenendez @RepGregoryMeeks @antonioguterres @HouseForeign @AsstSecStateAF Share on X In 2021, we are witnessing weeping mothers being restrained as they attempt to retrieve their sons being forcibly taken to fight the civil war https://twitter.com/omarhuseiin/status/1456357674291892224?s=20 #DontTakeMyChild #OromoProtests @SenatorMenendez @RepGregoryMeeks… Share on X Supposedly lessons learned from Rwanda and Bosnia however the international community continues to idle with little interest to stop the heinous crimes of the warmonger and peace prize winner, Abiy Ahmed. #DontTakeMyChild #OromoProtests @The_Advocates @StarTribune @UNHumanRights Share on X Why is the international community silent? Children are forcibly taken to participate in a civil war. For them, the penalties of refusing are far scarier than on the fields. #DontTakeMyChild #DontTakeMyChild #OromoProtests @The_Advocates @StarTribune @UNHumanRights Share on X Stop the forced mobilization of innocent, young children to warzones. This is a serious violation of child endangerment. Where is the international community? #DontTakeMyChild #OromoProtests @SenatorMenendez @RepGregoryMeeks @antonioguterres @HouseForeign @SFRCdems Share on X Have we thought of the repercussions of forcible child recruitments in war? If they make it out alive, could you imagine the effects of their trauma? #DontTakeMyChild #DontTakeMyChild #OromoProtests @ReutersAfrica @nickschifrin @CNN @BBCAfrica @StarTribune @The_Advocates Share on X Among war-affected children, child soldiers are more likely to endure harsher psychological consequences, such as PTSD, major depression, hostility, sadness, self-confidence and inability to cope with daily life. #DontTakeMyChild #OromoProtests @The_Advocates @StarTribune @UN Share on X
