Crimean Republic
04-06-2008, 21:33
I was writing an RP about the rise of one of the top leaders in my nation in the modern times, through the scope of the War of 1996. I need a nation that has a history of using child soldiers in civil wars, in order to develop the backstory for this general, Joseph Muhudin.
Please tell me a in brief about your experience with this subject in your nation's past, and about the standard treatment of these boy-fighters.
Joseph was born into a warring nation, with a father who worked as a subsistence farmer, in the countryside. When the war came, rebels attempted to occupy the countryside, and use Joseph's father Aden's home as quarters and a safe-house for their soldiers. Aden however, wanted to have nothing to do with the fighting, rather he wished to continue raising his son in the way of his Lord Jesus Christ (Aden was a convert). In retaliation, the rebels impaled Aden and took Joseph, forcing him into their child army, and fueling him with opium, alcohol, women and blood. Joseph fought for the rebel soldiers for sixteen months, and in the process becoming a bloodthirsty monster, seduced into murder and rape by his masters.
But there was still a soul in his body. It was wounded, and lay on its deathbed, but its heart still beat--feebly--with love. So soon, when Joseph was eight, his uncle Roblet Manilafasha, and his father's priest Fedoro Buliva, a Catholic missionary from Crimea, lead a rescue party composed of family members and good men into the rebel camp and rescued not only Joseph, but also twenty-seven other child soldiers, those who still were children somewhere inside, not the ones who had become monsters through and through.
In the attempt, many were murdered at the hands of the rebels, the children and the adult fighters alike. But in the effort, many were saved from a spiritual death, and were allowed to live on to another day.
In order to protect Joseph, Roblet and Roblet's wife and children, Fedoro fled with them to his home in Kerch, Crimea, where they settled down, trying to pick up the pieces of their shattered lives. Inevitably, though, Joseph's demons came to haunt him, in his night-dreams and his day-dreams.
Eventually, they sent Joseph to a specialist in the field, in another country, in order to raise his soul from the dead. It worked.
He soon became the most successful of the twenty seven refugees, fifteen of which either commited a murder or suicide before the age of nineteen. Four others were sent to asylums for the mentally insane, and still three others became homeless panhandlers, while the other four found jobs. Only Joseph finished Tertiary School.
Joseph went on to become a successful businessman, and a devout Catholic like his father. However, he soon felt the need to give back to his new country, and he did it in the only way he knew how: the Army.
He quickly moved up the ranks, and was soon the commander of a Division in the First army, a colonel in the Crimean system.
Please tell me a in brief about your experience with this subject in your nation's past, and about the standard treatment of these boy-fighters.
Joseph was born into a warring nation, with a father who worked as a subsistence farmer, in the countryside. When the war came, rebels attempted to occupy the countryside, and use Joseph's father Aden's home as quarters and a safe-house for their soldiers. Aden however, wanted to have nothing to do with the fighting, rather he wished to continue raising his son in the way of his Lord Jesus Christ (Aden was a convert). In retaliation, the rebels impaled Aden and took Joseph, forcing him into their child army, and fueling him with opium, alcohol, women and blood. Joseph fought for the rebel soldiers for sixteen months, and in the process becoming a bloodthirsty monster, seduced into murder and rape by his masters.
But there was still a soul in his body. It was wounded, and lay on its deathbed, but its heart still beat--feebly--with love. So soon, when Joseph was eight, his uncle Roblet Manilafasha, and his father's priest Fedoro Buliva, a Catholic missionary from Crimea, lead a rescue party composed of family members and good men into the rebel camp and rescued not only Joseph, but also twenty-seven other child soldiers, those who still were children somewhere inside, not the ones who had become monsters through and through.
In the attempt, many were murdered at the hands of the rebels, the children and the adult fighters alike. But in the effort, many were saved from a spiritual death, and were allowed to live on to another day.
In order to protect Joseph, Roblet and Roblet's wife and children, Fedoro fled with them to his home in Kerch, Crimea, where they settled down, trying to pick up the pieces of their shattered lives. Inevitably, though, Joseph's demons came to haunt him, in his night-dreams and his day-dreams.
Eventually, they sent Joseph to a specialist in the field, in another country, in order to raise his soul from the dead. It worked.
He soon became the most successful of the twenty seven refugees, fifteen of which either commited a murder or suicide before the age of nineteen. Four others were sent to asylums for the mentally insane, and still three others became homeless panhandlers, while the other four found jobs. Only Joseph finished Tertiary School.
Joseph went on to become a successful businessman, and a devout Catholic like his father. However, he soon felt the need to give back to his new country, and he did it in the only way he knew how: the Army.
He quickly moved up the ranks, and was soon the commander of a Division in the First army, a colonel in the Crimean system.