The Child Soldiers of Africa's Red Army

ISBN-13: 9780367742614 / Miękka / 2023 / 226 str.

UK) Berger Carol (University of Oxford

Opis

Drawing on accounts of South Sudanese who as children and teenagers were part of the Red Army - the youth wing of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army - as well as interviews with several of the original commanders, this book examines the role of social process and routinised violence in the use of underaged soldiers during Sudan’s civil war.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. The Use of Child Soldiers in South Sudan  2. Building the Red Army  3. The Red Army in Cuba: Plantation Labourers and ‘Vanguard’ of the SPLA  4. Nightshift at the Slaughterhouse  5. The ‘Cubans’  6. Post-war Status of Red Army Veterans  7. Mathiang Anyoor: The ‘Third Wave’ of Child Soldiers

O autorze

Carol Berger is a Commonwealth Scholar and the holder of a DPhil in Anthropology from the University of Oxford. She is a former foreign correspondent, reporting from the Horn of Africa and the Middle East, and has conducted research and analysis for the UN Mission in South Sudan.