Former Child Soldier Launches Memoirs in UN Effort To Curb Use of Children in War
Former Child Soldier Launches Memoirs in UN Effort To Curb Use of Children in War
16 February 2007 – The first-hand account of a Sierra Leonean child soldier’s odyssey from three years of vicious fighting, via a United Nations-supported rehabilitation centre, to a prestigious United States university has joined the arsenal of weapons the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is mustering to fight a scourge that at present entraps some 250,000 youngsters…
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