Sierra Leone

From the web
In his article “Child Soldiers”, Mike Wessells states, “Child soldiering violates the fundamental rights of children, exploits youth for political purposes, subjects them to slaughter and the ravages of war, and immerses them in a system that sanctions killing.”
Nirit Ben-Ari and Ernest Harsch, in there report “Sierra Leone Truth Commission condemns abuse” give an example of how the rebels treated the people “After misusing me to their satisfaction, the rebels left me alone in a very hopeless condition.
Jeremy Vine’s article “A Cruel War” gives a good example of how the rebels are careless and heartless "When the rebels reached the city, in a matter of days they are said to have amputated the limbs of around 1,500 people".
From the book
The imagery that Ishmael Beah uses in his description of the rebels can put the reader in front of the death: “Like lightning, I saw the spark of fire that came from the muzzle.” Beah shows the reader how there were many rebels and that they were fast at their work: “We saw an old man sitting in a chair as if asleep”.
“We started to crawl across the clearing,” Beah shows the intensity of the situation that many people were in.