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 Posted - 12 Nov 2008 : 13:52:24
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At the United Nations Ishmael Beah speaks to the concerns of child soldiers.
Unforgettable testimony that Africa's children . . . have eyes to see and voices to tell what has happened. And what voices! . . .
No outsider could have written this book, and it's hard to imagine that many insiders could do so with such acute vision, stark language, and tenderness. It is a heart-rending achievement.
With his book (A Long Way Gone :) Interesting But at the same time a very dread how things could quickly get out of control. No wonder how it got into the bestseller lists.
Globally, hundreds of thousands of child soldiers to use - on command, they must kill and torture. Ishmael Beah was one of them. His story tells of the adventures of a minor horror Killers, the life back into place.
Already with twelve Ishmael Beah holds his first Kalashnikov in your hands. And it does not last until the young Sierra Leone for the first time expresses the deduction. He kills on command - that was 1993. Shortly before he is on the run from the civil war and forced the soldiers trained. Alcohol, drugs and military drill make him a cold-blooded murderer. Nearly two years spent in constant Ishmael drugs and blood rush to kill without pity on command and enjoys the power that gives him his weapon.
When the war from television came closer as it was, before he learned the killing, describes today's 26-year-old Beah in his book only thing I knew about wars, I had read in books or in movies like Rambo seen, and then was, of course, the war in neighboring Liberia, which I by the news on BBC had learned. "
After two years already Ishmael child soldier is to create it by UNICEF staff, him and other minors to liberate. However, the employees come to unexpected resistance: "When UNICEF came to take us out, we do not. We believed that the war is the only possible life", as Beah says today. He has done it: the horror of his childhood experiences behind them and after hard struggle back to life found.
Another "normal" life lead, he lives in New York and has his biography written one bestselling - number one in U.S. sales charts. Even Mohammed, a friend from the time before the war, could life as a child soldier escape. He now lives in Australia.
World report on child soldiers 2008
• Since 2004, the number of conflicts in which child soldiers are used, from 27 to 17 decreased.
• 120 countries have appealed to a UN Children's Rights Convention signed, no child soldiers.
• The 43 countries are still more than four years ago.
Child soldiers global report 2008:
http://74.125.93.104/translate_c?hl=de&sl=de&tl=en&u=http://www.childsoldiersglobalreport.org/content/gambia&usg=ALkJrhhzNt7gncAWDJazydKluC_ymzeEKQ
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