View Ishmael Beah Sierra Leone Child Soldiers Pics. Sierra leone's civil war started in 1991 with a military coup. Unicef goodwill advocate for children affected by war ishmael beah traveled to sierra leone to see how unicef is protecting child survivors of sexual abuse.

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Memoirs of a boy soldier. His first novel, radiance of tomorrow, will be published in 2014. Ishmael beah was only 12 years old when a government army pulled him into the sierra leone armed conflict in 1993.

Ishmael beah, born in 1980 in sierra leone, west africa, is the new york times bestselling author of a long way gone:

The child soldier, of sierra leone, who witnessed and committed war atrocities talks about his new book. Ishmael beah, a former child soldier from sierra leone tells his story. That night we were moved to a rehabilitation center called benin home. A year later, beah spoke at the un presentation of the machel.