Youth Abducted, and Trained to Kill. Robyn Dixon.
by Dixon, Robyn; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2005Article 28Family. Publisher: Los Angeles Times, 2004ISSN: 1522-3213;.Subject(s): Abduction | Child abuse | Child soldiers | Human rights -- Liberia | Liberia -- History -- Civil War, 1989- | Liberia -- Politics and governmentDDC classification: 050 Summary: "The children had nicknames based on their grimmest deeds--like 'Castrator' or 'Laughing and Killing.' Some dyed their hair bright orange. Others fought naked to terrify the enemy. Some girl soldiers fought in their underwear because they thought it would make them magical and bulletproof. They carried the scars of secret initiation rites and wore neck charms that they believed would protect them from enemy bullets....The commanders in Liberia's four-year war deny recruiting child soldiers. But, according to the accounts of child soldiers interviewed by the New York-based organization Human Rights Watch, the government and two rebel groups abducted children as young as nine and turned them into combatants during the past four years." (LOS ANGELES TIMES) This article reviews the Human Rights Watch report, which "paints a chilling portrait of the suffering of child soldiers in Liberia and the atrocities they witnessed and committed," and highlights the problems the country faces in "demobilizing thousands of child soldiers and returning them to communities where they may have committed atrocities."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Youth Abducted, and Trained to Kill, Feb. 2, 2004; pp. n.p..
"The children had nicknames based on their grimmest deeds--like 'Castrator' or 'Laughing and Killing.' Some dyed their hair bright orange. Others fought naked to terrify the enemy. Some girl soldiers fought in their underwear because they thought it would make them magical and bulletproof. They carried the scars of secret initiation rites and wore neck charms that they believed would protect them from enemy bullets....The commanders in Liberia's four-year war deny recruiting child soldiers. But, according to the accounts of child soldiers interviewed by the New York-based organization Human Rights Watch, the government and two rebel groups abducted children as young as nine and turned them into combatants during the past four years." (LOS ANGELES TIMES) This article reviews the Human Rights Watch report, which "paints a chilling portrait of the suffering of child soldiers in Liberia and the atrocities they witnessed and committed," and highlights the problems the country faces in "demobilizing thousands of child soldiers and returning them to communities where they may have committed atrocities."
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