When @[email protected] references “the genocide”, I don’t think they’re talking about the ongoing Israeli genocide, they’re talking about the OTHER genocide, the one in Yemen, which directly involves the Houthi.
But Squid is right in that child soldiers aren’t volunteers, they don’t have the capacity of volunteering. They’re conscripted, often on dire threats against them and their families.
The Israeli genocide really does have nothing to do with it. The Yemeni genocide definitely does.
Yeah I agree. I was no way defending the use of child soldiers. It’s done via coercion for better access to food and water. I was trying to focus on the underlying cause, being the genocide in Yemen, as the root cause. As in the best way to end the use of child soldiers, along with all the other deaths of children in Yemen such as starvation, is to first end the genocide. Without addressing the root problem, it won’t resolve, because the underlying material conditions have not changed.
I think you guys are on two different tracks.
When @[email protected] references “the genocide”, I don’t think they’re talking about the ongoing Israeli genocide, they’re talking about the OTHER genocide, the one in Yemen, which directly involves the Houthi.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14623528.2024.2346405#abstract
It all gets muddled because the Houthis also make attacks in the Red Sea so it all kind of conflates together.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Sea_crisis
But Squid is right in that child soldiers aren’t volunteers, they don’t have the capacity of volunteering. They’re conscripted, often on dire threats against them and their families.
The Israeli genocide really does have nothing to do with it. The Yemeni genocide definitely does.
Yeah I agree. I was no way defending the use of child soldiers. It’s done via coercion for better access to food and water. I was trying to focus on the underlying cause, being the genocide in Yemen, as the root cause. As in the best way to end the use of child soldiers, along with all the other deaths of children in Yemen such as starvation, is to first end the genocide. Without addressing the root problem, it won’t resolve, because the underlying material conditions have not changed.
I realize which genocide they’re referring to. They’re saying that child soldiers are choosing to fight against it. They’re wrong.