Removing child soldiers from combat does not immediately eliminate their violent behavior

Evidence

Perhaps the naïve foreigners thought that removing us from the war would lessen our hatred for the RUF. It hadn’t crossed their minds that a change of environment wouldn’t immediately make us normal boys; we were dangerous, and brainwashed to kill. — Farrar, Straus and Giroux Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone- Memoirs of a Boy…, 516

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Farrar, Straus and Giroux Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone- Memoirs of a Boy…, 516
• XREF: connects to: Instructors induced fury in child soldiers by linking bayonet practice to murdered families — Farrar, Straus and Giroux Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone- Memoirs of a Boy…, 445; Continuous drug use and war films created a totalizing reality for child soldiers — Farrar, Straus and Giroux Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone- Memoirs of a Boy…, 475; Traumatized child soldiers relive their violence through persistent nightmares abroad — Farrar, Straus and Giroux Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone- Memoirs of a Boy…, 75 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Traumatized child soldiers relive their violence through persistent nightmares abroad #expands (0.80) — Farrar, Straus and Giroux Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone- Memoirs of a Boy…, 75
• Refused family acceptance drove rehabilitated child soldiers back to war #expands (0.70) — Farrar, Straus and Giroux Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone- Memoirs of a Boy…, 717
• Ex-child soldiers experience severe physical pain triggered by traumatic war flashbacks #expands (0.70) — Farrar, Straus and Giroux Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone- Memoirs of a Boy…, 613
• Wars increase human cruelty, altering perceptions of normal behavior. #expands (0.60) — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 338
• Early spanking predicts later aggression even after controlling for baseline behavior #corroborates (0.55) — , The Rod and the Child, 10307
• Frequent childhood spanking independently predicts adult aggression #corroborates (0.50) — , The Rod and the Child, 9788