Some of the areas I will be talking about in this paper as effects of war on children are: death, injury, disability, illness, rape and prostitution, psychological suffering, social and culture loss and child soldier. ... One of my friends who was really good on playing basketball, always told me that there is no way he will ever become a basketball star. ... Without good food and clean drinking water, you may end up having diarrhea or been malnourish. Refugee populations is more likely to have not as good as health indicators than the communities from which they came from. ...

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"What enables the wise sovereign and the good general to strike and conquer, and achieve things beyond the reach of ordinary men, is foreknowledge" (Tzu 77). ... One of these, completed by the Knowlton's Rangers, was an operation of sabotage; to cut off support for the British, who had been receiving soldiers from the Germans. Congress approved this mission and sent mercenaries to encourage this support to defect from the royal army, stating that the German prince was receiving money for each soldier killed in action. ...

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Historical Account of Conflicts Caused by Grievance in West Africa The decade of civil war in Sierra Leone can be traced to 1787, when majority of the soldiers in British army were the black residing in the northern part of Sierra Leone. ...

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The use of mercenaries has been historically a constant phenomenon till almost the end of the XX century, when their activities were criminalized by the international community. Parallel to that phenomenon European States, during their colonial expansion over all continents, authorized two other forms of similar violence by non state actors: the corsairs and the colonial merchant companies, such as the East India Company or the Hudson Bay Company. At the threshold of the XXI century we are witnessing a similar phenomenon. Although mercenaries have not completely disappeared "private milit...

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