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US military strikes Houthi targets in Yemen
(abcnews.go.com)
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The root cause is irrelevant when it comes to forcing child soldiers onto the front line. There is no way to frame that other than flagrant human rights abuse. Trying to excuse human rights abuses because someone else is committing genocide is ridiculous and sickening.
The genocide is not irrelevant, are you being intentionally obtuse here? That is the main relevance. It's the direct cause of the conditions in Yemen and the main cause of death by a wide wide margin. If you don't care about the root cause, you don't genuinely care about the problem or it's resolution, because you're ignoring the obvious solution of ending the genocide
And now you're just lying. Just like you were lying about children choosing to be soldiers. It's no different than saying children choose to be sex workers.
It's also a war crime.
There is no such thing as a necessary war crime. There is no such thing as a forgivable war crime. Genocides have repeatedly been stopped without child soldiers being used to stop them, something I'm sure you know. Child soldiers were not necessary to end genocides in Rwanda or the Balkans.
So you can lie about me not caring about genocide all you like. It doesn't change the fact that forcibly sending children to their deaths is never necessary and always completely reprehensible. There is no moral justification for sending children to die.
I think you guys are on two different tracks.
When @Keeponstalin@lemmy.world 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.