Face to face with former child soldiers--and hope: Messenger of Peace Michael Douglas visits Sierra Leone. (First Person).(related article: A day with Abu Bakr)

From: UN Chronicle | Date: June 1, 2003| Author: Acosta, Yvonne | Copyright information

When actor Michael Douglas agreed to go to Sierra Leone to film a documentary for the United Nations, he could not have envisioned the impact the visit to the war-torn West African country would have on him. By the end of his five-day stay in February 2003, he had seen first-hand the widespread devastation in the diamond-rich Kono District and the extent to which the decade-long civil war had shattered lives, but he also witnessed the attempts of dozens of former child soldiers to ...

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