Ishmaels fortælling som børnesoldat

My name is Ishmael and I’m 26 year old. I was a child soldier from when I was 12 years old.

I got trapped by the African mafia who said you gonna be a child soldier, and taked me from my family. So I cried and said I do not want to be a child soldier, and the man said to me, do you have money to pay me. If you do not have money to pay me I’ll let you go? I said to him, no I do not have money to pay you. I have no money to get food. How do you think I can pay you? So the man said, if you can’t pay me you will come with me and be a child soldier. That’s it’s.

The first day in the camp, they said to me I had to shoot someone, and I said I did not want to kill anyone. They said to me, If you do not kill him I’ll kill you and your family. I had no choice. If I do not kill him they would kill my family. I went to the man I had to shoot and I said Sorry. If I do not kill you, they will kill my family, “sorry” bang bang. After I had killed the man, they said to me, “here is a cup” put his blood in the cup and drink it, now’. I said to the man, why should I drink the blood? The men said only do what I say, and if you do not do what I said, you know what I will do to your family. So drink it, now’. After I had drunk the blood, they said to me I shout come with him in a room with cocaine. They said to me, you had to take this line now’ and I said fine. I’ll do it for my family. After I had taked the line I was dizzy. The man said to me, take this gun, and get outside, look around if someone you did not know, shoot him/that down”. I said, okay. I will”, my head hurt very much. I did some things I did not want to do. I couldn’t control myself. The gun I had in my hand was very heavy, and I couldn’t hold it right. It went up and down. I couldn’t shoot anybody. If someone came I would shoot past and I would get killed myself.