In University of Calgary,Child soldier spoke his former life to give us awareness!!

Yesterday, it was Sunday, March 16 2008. A 27-year-old ex-Serria Leone soldier spoke at University of calgary about his former life, whose name is Ishmael Beah. In his speech, he told others about his experience of being a child soldier that have been writen in a book by himself. In his book, Ishmael Beah outlines his younger years of war and conflict.

When Ishmael Beah was 12 years old, he had been a soldier and had started to learned how to use real gun to kill the others, and he adicted to drug. In fact, at the begining, he recognized that what he did was wrong, but after weeks or months later, his mind was changed by the environment around him. And then, he believed violence and drug are the only way for his life. I think it is the most one of terrible things in the world, isn't it? It is like a man fell into swamp who is sinking and cannot safe by himself even has been aware of the wrong. In his speech, he not only told us his experience, but also told us the fact of the war-ravaged nations. I think in next post I will tell you the fact of war-ravaged nations.