“I joined the army to avenge the deaths of my family and to survive, but I've come to learn that if I am going to take revenge, in that process I will kill another person whose family will want revenge; then revenge and revenge and revenge will never come to an end...”
Ishmael Beah
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
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