This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that ...
WASHINGTON, D.C., United States, June 29 (UNHCR) - Ishmael Beah, a former child soldier from Sierra Leone, recently published his best-selling memoir, "A Long Way Gone." At the age of 12, Beah fled ...
He has the face of a young man, and the memories of someone simultaneously younger and older than he appears. Ishmael Beah was 12 when his tranquil childhood in rural Africa was shattered by civil war ...