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The first-person account of a 26-year-old who fought in the war in
Sierra Leone as a 12-year-old boy. ‘My new friends have begun to
suspect that I haven't told them the full story of my life. “Why
did you leave Sierra Leone?” “Because there is a war.” “You
mean, you saw people running around with guns and shooting each
other?” “Yes, all the time.” “Cool.” I smile a little.
“You should tell us about it sometime.” “Yes, sometime.”’
This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs
and wielding AK-47s. There are more than fifty conflicts going on
worldwide and it is estimated there are some 300,000 child soldiers
fighting. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them. What is war like
through the eyes of a child soldier? How does one become a killer?
How does one stop? Child soldiers have been profiled by
journalists, and novelists have struggled to imagine their lives.
But until now, there has not been a first-person account from
someone who came through this hell and survived. Ishmael Beah, now
twenty-five years old, tells a riveting story: how at the age of
twelve in Sierra Leone, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a
land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he'd been
picked up by the government army, and Beah, at heart a gentle boy,
found he was capable of truly terrible acts. This is a rare and
mesmerizing account, told with real literary force and
heartbreaking honesty.
""My new friends have begun to suspect I haven't told them the full
story of my life.
"Why did you leave Sierra Leone?"
"Because there is a war."
"You mean, you saw people running around with guns and shooting
each other?"
"Yes, all the time."
"Cool."
I smile a little.
"You should tell us about it sometime."
"Yes, sometime.""
"
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 there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be
one of them.
What is war like through the eyes of a child soldier? How does one
become a killer? How does one stop? Child soldiers have been
profiled by journalists, and novelists have struggled to imagine
their lives. But until now, there has not been a first-person
account from someone who came through this hell and survived.
In "A Long Way Gone," Beah, now twenty-five years old, tells a
riveting story: how at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels
and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By
thirteen, he'd been picked up by the government army, and Beah, at
heart a gentle boy, found that he was capable of truly terrible
acts. This is a rare and mesmerizing account, told with real
literary force and heartbreaking honesty.
A comprehensive, up-to-date presentation of how children and young
people are affected by and respond to situations of armed conflict
and postwar reconstruction. War and Children: A Reference Handbook
looks at one of the most wrenching aspects of armed conflict,
ranging across the globe to examine the different ways armed
conflict and postwar reconstructions affect children and young
people, and how they have responded to both war and efforts to
alleviate war's destruction. While war has always affected
children, the nature of that impact has changed in the last
half-century. Civil conflicts break out in mostly poor, developing
countries with large populations of young people, and combatants
are less hesitant to turn civilian areas into battlegrounds. War
and Children explores these phenomena by focusing primarily on
recent conflicts worldwide, with case studies dramatizing important
issues and controversies—including the considerable number of
children soldiers throughout the world.
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