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1 Loss of A Childhood: Consequences of Boy Soldiers Psychological Impact / Long-Term Consequences Psychological Impact / Long-Term Consequences

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3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiqHKFMPhHw

4 Is There Recovery After The Decade Long War? Some Soldiers Lost Entire Families Some Soldiers Lost Entire Families Lost Limbs Lost Limbs Nightmares/Rage Nightmares/Rage Drug Use Drug Use Fear of Losing Everything (Survival Tactics) Fear of Losing Everything (Survival Tactics) Untrustworthy Untrustworthy Lack of Jobs Lack of Jobs

5 Life in Sierra Leone

6 Ishmael Beah Book – “A Long Way Gone” Book – “A Long Way Gone” New Home – New York New Home – New York Appointed as UNICEF Advocate for Children Affected by War Appointed as UNICEF Advocate for Children Affected by War

7 A Lifetime To Recovery “The picture of violence is in your mind for the rest of your life. You can bury it in your subconscious, but it is alive in you until the day you die.”

8 Work Cited Adams, Noah. “ Analysis: Former Child Soldiers Abducted By Rebels in Sierra Leone Are Returned To Their Families.” All Things Considered NPR (2001): n. pag. Newspaper Source. 07 April 2015 Adams, Noah. “ Analysis: Former Child Soldiers Abducted By Rebels in Sierra Leone Are Returned To Their Families.” All Things Considered NPR (2001): n. pag. Newspaper Source. 07 April 2015 Beah, Ishmael. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of A Child Soldier. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2007. Print Beah, Ishmael. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of A Child Soldier. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2007. Print Journeyman Pictures. “Sierra Leones Cocaine-Drugged Child Soldiers.” Youtube. 2000. Web. 08 Jan. 2008. <https://youtube/Ve42DWIuB8A Journeyman Pictures. “Sierra Leones Cocaine-Drugged Child Soldiers.” Youtube. 2000. Web. 08 Jan. 2008. <https://youtube/Ve42DWIuB8A Kennan, JP. “The Forgotten War: The Sierra Leone Civil War.” Youtube. 2007. Web. 16 Aug. 2007. <https://youtube/v=tiqHKFMPhHw Kennan, JP. “The Forgotten War: The Sierra Leone Civil War.” Youtube. 2007. Web. 16 Aug. 2007. <https://youtube/v=tiqHKFMPhHw Lupick, Travis. Ghosts of Civil War Haunt Sierra Leone Polls. 2012. Aljazeera.com. Web. 10 Apr. 2015 Lupick, Travis. Ghosts of Civil War Haunt Sierra Leone Polls. 2012. Aljazeera.com. Web. 10 Apr. 2015 Montage, Renee. “A Former Child Soldier Imagines ‘Tomorrow’ In Sierra Leone.” Morning Edition NPR (2014): n. pag. Newspaper Source Plus. 07 April 2015 Montage, Renee. “A Former Child Soldier Imagines ‘Tomorrow’ In Sierra Leone.” Morning Edition NPR (2014): n. pag. Newspaper Source Plus. 07 April 2015 Toosi, Nahal. “Writer’s Years As A Child Soldier in Sierra Leone Still Haunts His Days, Night.” The Canadian Press (2007): n. pag. Newpaper Source Plus. 07 April 2015 Toosi, Nahal. “Writer’s Years As A Child Soldier in Sierra Leone Still Haunts His Days, Night.” The Canadian Press (2007): n. pag. Newpaper Source Plus. 07 April 2015 Un News Centre. Author and Former Child Soldier Ishmael Beah Signs as UNICEF Advocate. 20 Nov. 2007. Web 10 Apr. 2015 Un News Centre. Author and Former Child Soldier Ishmael Beah Signs as UNICEF Advocate. 20 Nov. 2007. Web 10 Apr. 2015 US Central Intelligence Agency. Africa 1998. 1998. University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries. Uflib.ufl.edu. Web. 10 Apr. 2015 US Central Intelligence Agency. Africa 1998. 1998. University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries. Uflib.ufl.edu. Web. 10 Apr. 2015


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