Knowledge About Sierre Leone
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10 Facts
- · Children are illegally, forced to become a solider. (http://www.amnesty.org/en/children)
- · They are used for lane mine clearing, messengers, spies, people on the front line, and girls are used as sex slaves
- · Sierra Leone uses children in mines to get diamonds, this is called blood diamonds
- · Sierra Leone got its independence from the British in 1961 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Leone)
- · Ishmael Beah was born in 1980 (http://www.alongwaygone.com/ishmael_beah.html)
- · Ishmael Beah got a bachelor’s degree in political science
- · He lives in NYC
- · About 40 % of child soldiers are girls (http://www.amnesty.org/en/children)
- · War groups make kids feel like there is no other option than joining the group (9http://www.infoplease.com/country/sierra-leone.html)
- · The country of Sierra Leone has a constitutional democracy