The Boy Soldiers of Sierra Leone

This evening, the University of Tennessee's Center for the Study of Youth and Political Violence will host two speakers who met because of war. Ishmael Beah and Alusine Kamara are both from Sierra Leone. Ishmael is now 26 years old. For much of his childhood, Sierra Leone's government forces clashed with rebel factions throughout the country. When he was 12, Ishmael, his older brother, and some friends went to visit neighbors in another village. They were on their way back to their home village when Ishmael saw the war for the first time. WUOT's Chrissy Keuper reports...

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