Child soldiers show prowess in Liberian war

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Fourteen-year-old Chenon Keita, one of Liberia's many child fighters, thinks the brutal war here is better than the movies. He joined the rebels to find his father but now wants the carnage to end soon.

Sitting on a stool in the middle of a road in Liberia's war-ravaged capital Monrovia, Keita appears a seasoned combatant with his AK-47 rifle slung on his side and the panache with which he draws on his cigarette says he is enjoying every drag.

His brothers in arms call him Bana, or the wise one. It is a tribute to his prowess in battle and his courage.

'They have much more fun than older people'

Like several others of the same age, Keita is considered to be one of the "big" fighters of the Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy (Lurd) rebel group which has besieged Monrovia for over two months and now holds 80 percent of the west African country.

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=68&art_id=qw1060432380975B241&set_id=1

Whose killed more people? Taylor and the rebels or Saddam and his sons and grandson?

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