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06.02.13
Ishmael
Beah
on Life As
a Solider
at 13
“I did not want to get out …
in my case, in Sierra Leone … being
in the war was actually one of the
ways to stay alive.”
Ishmael Beah, 32, was forced into being a
child soldier in Sierra Leone, an experience
he recounts in his 2007 memoir, A Long Way
Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (above).
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