Ishmael Beah
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
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Ishmael Beah was born in Sierra Leone in 1980. He moved to the United States in 1998 and finished his last two years of high school at the United Nations International School in New York. In 2004 he graduated from Oberlin College with a B.A. in political science. He is a member of the Human Rights Watch Children’s Rights Division Advisory Committee and has spoken before the United Nations, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Center for Emerging Threats and Opportunities (CETO) at the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory, and many other NGO panels on children affected by the war. His work has appeared in VespertinePress and LIT magazine. He lives in New York City.

現年二十六歲的 Beah 來自非洲獅子山共和國，該國內戰在他十二歲那年爆發，家破人亡的Beah流浪各地，最後被軍方收養，成了冷血、嗜毒、擅於掠奪的童兵。
原是恐懼死亡的無辜孩童，卻在 一夕之間成了草菅人命的殺人機器，Beah的童年以荷槍實彈的人肉戰場取代騎馬打仗遊戲，白日燒殺擄掠、夜裡擁槍入眠，直到兩年後，聯合國兒童基金會（UNICEF）介入，Beah的童兵生活才告終止，他先後被送進勒戒中心和中途之家，受 一名醫護士啟發，開始創作。目前，熱愛嘻哈音樂和詩意文字的Beah已於紐約完成大學學業，他據實寫下過往經歷、出版A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier，希望呼籲大眾關注童兵議題。


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