Author(s): China Keitetsi

Biography/Memoir

"When I was a Child Soldier, I thought that was the way it was all over the world" This is a unique and extraordinary eye-witness account of the horrors of war experienced by a Ugandan child soldier, whose childhood was shattered and adulthood traumatised by the suffering she underwent and the brutality she was forced to take part in.Caught up in a horrifying guerrilla war at the age of eight, China Keitetsi experienced years of abuse in Uganda. She has spoken at the United Nations on the rights of the child, and here tells her own story. First published in Denmark 2002; this edition 2004.