A Child Soldier Speaks
If I mentioned it before, please forgive me, but if anyone is interested in the perspective of a child soldier, check out A Long Way Gone- Memoirs of a Child Solder, by Ishmael Beah. It was a difficult but enlightening- and ultimately hopeful- read.
Also, Netlfix's Beasts of No Nation was a pretty good film on the topic.
West Africa, specifically Liberia and Sierra Leone, put child soldiers on the map in the 1990s and early 2000s. Yes, child soldiers had been used countless times before, in conflicts all over the world, throughout history, but their employment in the afore mentioned failed states brought the issue to the attention of the world like none other.
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