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 ...

The problem persists because children’s presence on the battlefield throws the training and ethics of professional soldiers ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Almost four years after Taylor was forced to flee Liberia, the neighbouring West African nation of Sierra Leone still ... which recruited child soldiers who committed atrocities, including cutting ...

An otherwise fun activity for any five-year-old turned out to be one that saved Sierra Leone-born Australian chef Brian Cole from being abducted and recruited as a child soldier 28 years ago.