The Predicament: Who could have supposed such an atrocity would have been conceived, even in the annals of Hades itself? Boy Soldiers, as young as 10 forced to kill and mutilate their own parents, don a AK-47 and began to march down a road that would alter the history of a nation. Of the 50,000 rebel soldiers, 30,000 would be such young boys, according to some estimates. Their antics would include words such as drugs, rape, pillage, plunder, mutilation and murder. It would lead to a demonic chaos of epic proportion, spawning unparalleled and unprecedented destruction across the landscape of Sierra Leone. More...