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Ishmael Beah's Innocence
Lives are taken and hope seemed to be lost in the unforgiving claws of war. Even if the thousands of children who were forced to witness and take part in the atrocities of the Sierra Leone civil war escaped with their lives, they weren’t able to escape with their innocence. Seeing bodies mutilated by gunshots and severed limbs on the street on a daily basis is enough to scar any child. Ishmael Beah was one of the many whose childhood was abruptly taken away from him during the war. Fear ruled over the children’s minds as the tragedies they saw each day consumed their lives.
As a child soldier, Ishmael was brainwashed with the use of drugs to kill countless of people to avenge the death of his family. When most boys his age should have been
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