Ishmael Beah’s Story.

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Ishmael Beah’s Story

Sierra Leone size: 27,699 sq miles languages: English, Krio (Creole language), and a range of African languages religions: Islam, indigenous beliefs, Christianity life expectancy: 39 yrs (M), 42 yrs (F) exports: diamonds, rutile, cocoa, coffee, fish

Political Background Sierra Leone, West Africa 1787 British Colony Freetown, capital refuge for freed slaves 1961 independence 1968 Conflict corruption & unrest fraudulent elections 1996 Election President A.T. Kabbah Revolutionary United Front (RUF) did not acknowledge 1997 Military Coup to restore Kabbah 1998 United Nations Security Council UN involvement peace keeping role 2001 17,500 UN Military Personnel

Factors Leading to Civil War in Sierra Leone Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire) civil war to oust dictator bloodbath over resources timber copper gold diamonds RUF (Revolutionary United Front) liberation army former corporal, Foday Sankoh Sierra Leone diamond mines to capital, Freetown Civil War

Child Soldier at War Age 12 Age 13 rebels to Beah’s small town separated from parents fled with a group of boys wandered village to village barely surviving reached Atlantic Ocean recruited into Sierra Leone Army Age 13 received his first AK-47 trained to kill “We walked around the village and killed everyone who came out of the houses and huts.” — Beah

A New Life Age 15 US immigrant 2004 rescued by UNICEF fieldworkers rehabilitation center in Freetown psychological counseling health care recovery from addiction & trauma US immigrant UN International School N.Y. UN address: plight of child soldiers 2004 graduated from Oberlin College, OH

Beah Today advocate for former child soldiers author: A Long Way Gone New York City resident 26 years old

Beah at Oberlin College, OH “After having survived that war, I know what it feels like to suffer, to lose family, to lose my humanity and regain it… [R]emembering, however difficult, is a small price to pay to expose the continuous and rampant use of children in war.” — Phillyist.com interview, 8 Mar 2007)

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