47+ Ishmael Beah Sierra Leone Child Soldiers Pictures. Sierra leone's civil war started in 1991 with a military coup. The child soldier, of sierra leone, who witnessed and committed war atrocities talks about his new book.

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Ishmael beah was only 12 years old when a government army pulled him into the sierra leone armed conflict in 1993. After carrying out investigations in sierra leone, the australian newspaper alleges that beah was 15 and not 13 when he was recruited into the army and that he therefore served only a few months as a child soldier and not two years as he has claimed in the book. Ishmael and his friends…upon threat of death if they tried to escape…became child soldiers.

Author and former child soldier ishmael beah explains how he was recruited into the sierra leone military at 13 years of age.

Former child soldier ishmael beah smiles at a signing of his new book on feb. The graphics of the rebel soldiers is too graphic. Unicef goodwill ambassador (for children affected by war). Ishmael beah, as a un advocate, helped negotiate the release of 45 child soldiers from the central african republic to unicef in august of 2012.