Posted by Benjamin on: 10.31.2007 /
A wee dose of another reality on this All Hallows’ Eve.
When one has no one left on the earth, neither father nor mother, neither brother nor sister, and when one is small, a little boy in a damned barbaric country where everyone slashes each other’s throats, what does one do? Of course, one becomes a child soldier, a small soldier, to get one’s fair share of eating and butchering as well. Only that remains.
-Ahmadou Kourouma, African writer
Human Rights watch estimates that there are 300,000 child soldiers worldwide, including thousands in Afghanistan and Iraq, where U.S. troops cannot fail to be required to kill them.
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