From the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, Washington, D.C., May 5, 2008.
Ishmael Beah knows that former child soldiers in war-ravaged
African countries can reclaim their lives because that’s just what he did. In
1993, rebels in Sierra Leone
killed 13-year-old Beah’s parents and two brothers, forcing him to join their
bloody campaign for two years.
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