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 Click To Tweet 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 Click To Tweet 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… Click To Tweet 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 Click To Tweet #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… Click To Tweet 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 Click To Tweet 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 Click To Tweet 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 Click To Tweet 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 Click To Tweet 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… Click To Tweet 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 Click To Tweet 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 Click To Tweet 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 Click To Tweet Ethiopian Government is kidnapping innocent Oromo Youth to use them as a war shield. #DontTakeMyChild #OromoProtests @SenatorMenendez @RepGregoryMeeks @antonioguterres @HouseForeign @SFRCdems @AsstSecStateAF Click To Tweet 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 Click To Tweet 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 Click To Tweet 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 Click To Tweet 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 Click To Tweet 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 Click To Tweet 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 Click To Tweet 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 Click To Tweet “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… Click To Tweet 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 Click To Tweet 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 Click To Tweet 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… Click To Tweet 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 Click To Tweet 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 Click To Tweet 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 Click To Tweet Ethiopian government is abducting Oromo Children's, for military suicide missions. #DontTakeMyChild #DontTakeMyChild #OromoProtests @ReutersAfrica @Faiza_Mahamud @nickschifrin @CNN @BBCAfrica @StarTribune @The_Advocates Click To Tweet 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 Click To Tweet 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 Click To Tweet 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… Click To Tweet 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 Click To Tweet 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 Click To Tweet 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 Click To Tweet 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… Click To Tweet 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 Click To Tweet 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 Click To Tweet 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 Click To Tweet 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 Click To Tweet 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 Click To Tweet
