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Former child soldier helps Sierra Leoneans struggling in poverty
Friday, November 9, 2012 22:21
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Dennis Sadowski | Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON — Ishmeal Alfred Charles will always remember the day the helicopters saved his life.
It was sometime in 1998, in the midst of Sierra Leone's civil war, and Charles, then 15, was standing in line with a group of 10 teenagers, facing mutilation at the hands of a savage band of rebels that had ravaged much of the West Africa nation for seven years and counting.
2012-11-09 20:40:14
Source: http://stlouisreview.com/article/2012-11-07/former-child-soldier
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