Mariatu Kamara

Mariatu Kamara
Mariatu Kamara

Sunday, May 1, 2011

This documentary depicts a startling image of the life of a child soldier and his victims.
The boy they interviewed, Sherieff  Koroma, weaves stories of how he had been drugged with cocaine, and when he was high, he would do whatever he was told. “If we were heavily drugged with cocaine, we would spare no one” He explained. He still has scars from where his superiors rubbed drugs into his skin and says. He says he still has urges to kill. He isn’t even a teenager yet, and he has been turned into a recovering drug addict and a murderer, who maimed people and shattered their lives, and he will have to survive through his guilt for the rest of his life.
Another interview the journalists managed to conduct was with one of the leaders of the rebel group, Foday Sankoh. Sankoh seemed very proud of what he had done, and denied that he has caused much abusing of children. He said the children worked out of their own free will and knew what they were doing. I was appalled as I watched this man talk. He seemed happy and proud that he had ruined millions of lives, and turned innocent children into slaughtering machines. He represents a very dark and evil side of the human race to my eyes.

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