No one knew what the lives of former child soldiers might look like. Perhaps they would become “an entire lost generation,” as the prosecutor for the UN Special Court for Sierra Leone described them ...

During Sierra Leone’s 11-year civil war, it is estimated that there were: 2.6 million people displaced, 70,000 casualties, and upwards of 48,000 male and female children associated with armed groups ...

During Sierra Leone’s civil war ... Abubakar, a 17 year old RUF child soldier demobilized in March 2000 was abducted outside the demobilization camp and forced to rejoin the RUF later that ...

In Sierra Leone, he received commitments from the ... International standards prohibiting the use of child soldiers remained woefully inadequate. A U.N. working group mandated to raise the minimum ...

When Ishmael Beah was 13 he was forced to join the army in Sierra Leone. He was rescued and slowly rehabilitated. But what does it take to turn a soldier back into a child? Show more As a boy ...

[Kipsang Joseph, Standard] Soldiers who served in the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Sierra Leone, in 2001, returned home with prospects of turning around their lives. With ready cash they ...