Liberia: June 8, 2003

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'Child soldiers' are back on the streets of the capital Monrovia, riding around in pick-up trucks with automatic rifles. Several times this year, President Taylor's loyalist forces raided schools and displaced persons camps, in search of young recruits. However, others joined the government militias as volunteers, to avenge the killing of their parents by rebel fighters. After 14 years of on-and-off civil warring, the Liberian economy is so wrecked that there are few jobs, no open schools and little hope left for these kids. - Adam Geibel



 

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