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Research Paper On Ishmael Beah

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Ishmael Beah was born in the African Country Sierra Leone in 1980, because of the country he was born in, he was subject to lots of corruption. Unfortunately, during his lifetime there a civil war had broken out and the government of Sierra Leone was in shambles. When he was just 13 years old he was taken in by the army of Sierra Leone to fight the rebel group known as the RUF (Revolutionary United Front). During the time Beah was with the army he had seen and committed numerous atrocities all because of a groups belief of war. Later in Beah’s life he had been rescued because of the United Nations Children’s Fund. The UNICEF program came to rescue Beah, that gave him the opportunity to start a new life in America. When Beah came to America
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