A footnote to the Voice cover story, which probed the veracity of some of Ishmael Beah’s claims, in the celebrated memoir “A Long Way Gone”: Beah describes an incident in which six teens were killed ...

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In this week’s Voice cover story, “Boy Soldier of Fortune,” Graham Rayman examines the still-simmering controversy surrounding inconsistencies in “Long Way Gone,” Ishmael Beah’s celebrated memoir of ...

WASHINGTON, D.C., United States, June 29 (UNHCR) - Ishmael Beah, a former child soldier from Sierra Leone, recently published his best-selling memoir, "A Long Way Gone." At the age of 12, Beah fled ...

This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that ...