Sierra Leone 'Helped Deploy Ex-Child Soldiers to Iraq' - Report

From a government perspective, the recruitment was supposedly a good deal because it took away the local "troublemakers" and sent them to Iraq for a couple of years, according to Danish academic Maya Mynster Christensen.

 

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