1st Edition
The Child Soldiers of Africa's Red Army The Role of Social Process and Routinised Violence in South Sudan's Military
By Carol Berger
Copyright 2022
240 Pages
8 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
240 Pages
8 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
240 Pages
8 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book examines the role of social process and routinised violence in the use of underaged soldiers in the country now known as South Sudan during the twenty-one-year civil war between Sudan’s northern and southern regions. Drawing on accounts of South Sudanese who as children and teenagers were part of the Red Army—the youth wing of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA)—the book sheds... Read more
Introduction
1. The Use of Child Soldiers in South Sudan
2. Building the Red Army
3. The Red Army in Cuba: Plantation Labourers and ‘Vanguard’ of the SPLA
4. Nightshift at the Slaughterhouse
5. The ‘Cubans’
6. Post-war Status of Red Army Veterans
7. Mathiang Anyoor: The ‘Third Wave’ of Child Soldiers
Biography
Carol Berger is a Commonwealth Scholar and the holder of a DPhil in Anthropology from the University of Oxford. She is a former foreign correspondent, reporting from the Horn of Africa and the Middle East, and has conducted research and analysis for the UN Mission in South Sudan.
