1st Book Blog

The book I am reading is They Fight like Soldiers, They Die like Children, by Romeo Dallaire.

Dallaire, Roméo, Jessica Dee. Humphreys, and Ishmael Beah. They Fight like Soldiers, They Die like Children: The Global Quest to Eradicate the Use of Child Soldiers. New York: Walker &, 2011. Print.

I have read pages 104-145

This book has been very insightful to my project, Dallaire is very learned in the area of child soldiers. He spent years as a general and he also spent a lot of time researching and interviewing people. He references many real life stories, and also the works of other authors in his writings.

From the three chapters I am reading they have been about How child soldiers are made, and why they are chosen. There have been some really interesting points, and also some angering stories. There stories include detailed accounts for atrocities done by rebel groups in Africa, including the LRA. One of these detailed how some children are just taken from their families, who are then killed so the kids would have nothing to return to. In some cases the children themselves were forced to kill family, and even burn down their own village.

Through reading, I've learned that this book has been very helpful for my project because it is a supplemental resource, and gives another angle at the conflict than just the Invisible Children corporation. It is important to have this other angle because it gives my research a better backing, instead of it all being from one source.