Child Soldier (Ebook)

China Keitetsi

The remarkable memoir of a Ugandan child soldier

China's story of her life as a child conscript in the Ugandan National Resistance Army starts at age 8 and continues for ten years of terror, humiliation and sexualassault. After rejoining the army years later she serves as bodyguard to the Minister for Records who is disgraced and China is then captured by the Ugandan secret service and is tortured for six months. It is a story from the horrors of the Ugandan civil war, one of Africa's bloodiest and longest-running conflicts, which has gone on for over 40 years and where children are abducted and forced to commit atrocities regularly (as many as 8,000 per year). China's story exposes the reality of their civil war and the terrors committed and endured by children.

Publication date: March 1, 2011

£18.99

ISBN: 9780285639980

ISBN 10 / ASIN: B006WB2BGW

Imprint: Souvenir Press

Subject: Biography & Memoir

China Keitetsi

China Keitetsi

China Keitetsi is a Ugandan activist who has won international renown as a campaigner for the plight of child soldiers. The memoirs of Keitetsi, a former child soldier herself, have been translated into French, German, Japanese, Chinese and other languages.