Refused family acceptance drove rehabilitated child soldiers back to war

Evidence

(After I left the center, Mambu went back to the front lines, because his family refused to take him in.) — Farrar, Straus and Giroux Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone- Memoirs of a Boy…, 717

Categorization

  • corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Farrar, Straus and Giroux Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone- Memoirs of a Boy…, 717
  • XREF: connects to: Removing child soldiers from combat does not immediately eliminate their violent behavior — Farrar, Straus and Giroux Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone- Memoirs of a Boy…, 516; Between 1914 and 1939 soldiers’ relation to home and return changed fundamentally — Julien Gracq, Balcony in the Forest, 210

Broader Connections