Somali Children invent War Game: Islamists and Ethiopians!

[Fabregas]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7376201.stm

 

Feel sorry for those kidz!

[Jacaylbaro]

I heard this on the BBC Somali section and it was unfurtunate coz that is what they grew up in and they know nothing else from life. The reporter was interviewing some of them and it was amazing how they think in one hand then you feel sorry according to the situation they are raised.

 

Those who were interviewed were only 11 and 10 years old meaning they were born during the war. So what do you expect ??

[Gar-haye]

^^a sad story indeed. but if you go to somaligalbeed you would see kids playing with the remains of burnt out B10, burnt out tanks, and armored vehicles. i am not kidding if you go to the sorrounding hills around khabridahar you would find empty shells and burn out tanks.

[Geel_jire]

I dont see anything wrong with this. who hasnt played war games growing up.

 

we used to fight neighborhood vs neighborhood attacking each other with wadhafs in simulated war which sometimes resulted in serious injuries but was really fun and sabaxaad & lagdan on the beach.

[LayZie G.]

^are you serious?

 

You don't see anything wrong with a 10 or 11 yr old boy playing mujahid?

 

He probably can't read and write and instead is playing the role of a martyr for the shabaab side, and you dont think something is wrong with that picture?

 

In just 3 to 5 yrs from now, these boys will be the ideal candidate for these evil spirits aka shabaab's, and you still don't think something is wrong with that?

 

Geelka, please, take that blindfold off and open your eyes to the destruction all around you.

 

Wake the h*ll up@geelka, children are meant to be children, they are not meant to be immitating terrorist organizations. These boys out to be at dugsi and school learning how to add, subtract,divide and multiple along with learning their alphabet both in somali, arabic and english, not playing war games.

 

shame on you

[Geel_jire]

^ why must they be mutually exclusive ?

 

are you suggesting that because they play war games they have no possible future or education what does one have to do with the other ?

 

boys have been playing war games for centuries ... in the west they play 'cowboys & Indians' back home they play Shabaab vs Xabash.

 

Al-shabaab would be a perfect role model for young boys to aspire to they have all the qualities a boy should strive for .. geesinimo, diin jacayl, wadaninimo, raganimo.

 

You don't see anything wrong with a 10 or 11 yr old boy playing mujahid?

LG curious you have an issue with young boys playing mujahids yet in your whole post nothing about the ones playing Ethiopians ? dont let your recently acquired hate for the honorable al-shabaab blind you.... since you believe they are 'mujaahids' could there be a more perfect role model ?

[Malika]

These kid's have no other experience but war,mayhem and more war.Naturally they will imitate what goes around them..They will require a great deal of rehabilitation to normality if and when there is peace..

 

so folks,better equip ourselves to deal with the aftermath of these traumatic times.