The 29-year-old recently traveled home to Sierra Leone with an ABC news camera, a return that he describes as bittersweet. "It became a kind of blood lust and madness, to the point that we emulated the leaders," he said. "When the lieutenant or corporal caught a prisoner and slit their throat or something like that, all the young people talked about it and say we want to do that, we want to be like that.
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