The loose coalition of fighters carried out extrajudicial killings and forcibly conscripted child soldiers during the ... and LURD’s forces in Monrovia, Liberia. Federal investigators identified ...

In countries such as Mozambique, Liberia, El Salvador, and Guatemala peace accords led to the demobilization of many child soldiers in recent years. However, in other areas the use of child ...

rape and using child soldiers. He was the first former head of state convicted by an international war crimes court since World War II. While no one has been tried in Liberia, a handful of others ...

who earned his nom de guerre by fighting naked during Liberia's second civil war, told Reuters. Blahyi and his child soldiers gained notoriety fighting naked on the streets of Monrovia during the ...

Liberia, founded as a haven for freed US slaves ... often by armies of drugged child soldiers led by ruthless warlords Regional peacekeepers intervened twice to end the fighting.

Her research focuses on the socialisation of child soldiers within rebel groups in northern Uganda, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Mozambique. She has conducted 400 in-depth interviews with child ...