Liberia’s complex civil war became known around the world for its atrocities, ... In fact, this is a crucial moment: Liberia's generation of child soldiers is now coming of age.

FORT LEE, VA. (Jan. 20, 2009) -- Armed Forces of Liberia Staff Sgt. Raymond Mulbah, currently attending the Army Logistics University, was 16 when a civil war broke out in his country that lasted ...

The 43-page report, “How to Fight, How to Kill: Child Soldiers in Liberia,” documents how more than 15,000 child soldiers fought on all sides of the Liberian civil war, and that many units ...

MONROVIA, Liberia -- In his dream, 14-year-old Moses Watson is running from the front lines in Liberia when a bullet hits him in the guts. "All my intestines come out," said Moses, ...

During that phase of the civil war, some 50,000 children were killed and many more were injured, ... many Liberian child soldiers formed criminal gangs and mercenary groups who fought in regional ...

Eighteen years on from Liberia’s brutal civil war, former child soldiers and the victims of violence are still dealing with trauma. After the war, the UN Refugee Agency said more than 21,000 ...

Rehearsal for "Child Soldier," about child soldiers and civil war in Liberia written by author Thalia Cunningham and directed by Mahmood Karimi Hakak at Siena College on Tuesday Nov. 4, 2014 in ...

Aid workers estimate up to 20,000 child soldiers, some as young as seven or eight, were recruited by both government and rebel forces during Liberia's latest war.

Children have been an integral part of both government and rebel armies in Liberia since the country’s seven-year civil war in ... and Movement for Democracy in Liberia (MODEL)--used child soldiers.

In the 1990s, Liberia was torn apart by a civil war in which child soldiers fought for the guerrilla leader Charles Taylor. As an international court delivers its verdict on Taylor, Finlay Young ...

The loose coalition of fighters carried out extrajudicial killings and forcibly conscripted child soldiers during the brutal second Liberian Civil which lasted from 1999-2003, according to federal ...

Eighteen years on from Liberia’s brutal civil war, former child soldiers and the victims of violence are still dealing with trauma. After the war, the UN Refugee Agency said more than 21,000 ...