Ishmael Beah on "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier"

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Ishmael Beah was 12 when the army of Sierra Leone gave him an AK-47 and a lot of drugs and turned him into a killing machine. Beah's been rehabilitated and lives in the USA. He tells Anne Strainchamps about his life as a child soldier and his work helping other child victims. He's the author of "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier."