The argument that could be made about the two texts Armed and Underage by Jeffrey Gettleman in Mogadishu and The Charge: Genocide by Lydia Polgreen in Khartoum is that the first text has a worse government issue than the second. The first reason that it is better is that kids are being put into wars and small battles. The second reason is that kids are being used underage in horrible conditions. The counterclaim would be that the second article has a worse government issue. I now move onto my evidence for my side of the argument.

Again, my first reason is that kids shouldn't be put in war. Therefore, my first piece of evidence from Gettleman is ¨In some countries, hunger and poverty drive parents to sell their children into service. What's …show more content…
The evidence from Gettleman that I found is ¨Awil is paid about $1.50 a day, but only every now and then, like most soldiers. His bed is a fly-covered mattress that he shares with two other child soldiers, Ali Deeq, 10, and Abdulaziz, 13.¨ In other words, this says that he is underpaid and has to share a single bed with two other child soldiers. This shows that he is being kept in a horrible place where they share beds and he is being underpaid for being in a position where he can be killed. The second piece of evidence from Gettleman is ¨He was abandoned by parents who fled to Yemen, he says, and joined a militia when he was about 7. He now lives with other government soldiers in a filthy house littered with cigarette boxes and smelly clothes. Another way of putting this is that they are being kept in a filthy house with other government soldiers. This shows that the government can't even afford to get the kids a safe and healthy place to live while they are soldiers, they just throw them in filthy houses with other soldiers. The third piece of evidence I found from Gettleman that supports my claim is ¨Their growth has been stunted by conflict-induced famines, their psyches damaged by all the killings they have witnessed. "What do I enjoy?" Awil asks. "I enjoy the gun." In short, this says that the kids are living in a world of terror and the only thing he …show more content…
The evidence that can be used to support this is from Polgreen which is ¨Since 2003, the United Nations estimates that at least 300,000 civilians have been killed in Darfur—a vast arid region of Sudan, the largest country in Africa. In other words, this shows that many people are being murdered and killed. This shows that it can have a bigger problem because of all the people that are being killed. The second piece of textual evidence from Polgreen is ¨A few weeks earlier—before it was attacked by Arab militias known as Janjaweed—Abu Sorouja had been a bustling town with hundreds of thatched mud-brick huts, a school, and a clinic. Now it consists mostly of ashes; nearly all the surviving villagers have fled.¨ In other words, this was once a nice town with a school and clinic now it is a pile of ashes and all the survivors left. This shows that the problem here can be worse because homes and schools are being burned to the ground, but again Gettleman says ¨While the number of conflicts involving child soldiers has dropped since 2004 from 27 to 15, human-rights experts estimate that more than 200,000 children worldwide are still being used as combatants, usually against their will. And it isn't just boys: Girls are often pressed into duty as cooks or messengers. Many are subjected to sexual abuse, including rape.¨ This supports both of my reasons because it says that kids are being