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FOXNews.com – Boy Soldier Defends His Book – Celebrity Gossip |…
FOX News – Jan 30, 2008
Beah’s whereabouts in 1993 and 1994 will likely remain a matter of conflicting memories, and not documented fact. Because of the civil war, records at his school were destroyed, as were copies of contemporary newspaper accounts. The book itself is not widely available in Sierra Leone, and one Mattru Jong native quoted by The Australian, school principal Abdul Barrie, told the AP that he had never seen it until a journalist showed him a copy. Barrie also said that rebels “made sporadic attacks and withdrawals on Mattru Jong from 1993 until January 1995, when the “whole town” was captured “and everybody left. ” He is the principal of the Centennial Secondary School, which Beah attended before fleeing Mattru Jong. One report, a field study compiled by “No Peace Without Justice,” a human rights organization, describes an attack on Mattru Jong that occurred in early 1995 and includes similarities to the conflict Beah dates to 1993. Both Beah and No Peace Without Justice say the attack was preceded by a Catholic official bearing a message of warning from rebels…
“I wanted to write about how I felt about war,” he says. Beah said he has received several inquiries about films rights for “A Long Way Gone,” but has so far not accepted any, because he didn’t want a “Hollywood version” of his story. Meanwhile, he wants to write again about Sierra Leone, this time without the need of fact-checking or disclaimers: He wants to write fiction. ___ AP reporter Clarance Macaulay in Freetown, Sierra Leone, contributed to this report. Copyright 2008 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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Awareness Times – Jan 30, 2008
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