The Child Soldiers of Staten Island
By Alissa Quart
Mother Jones, June 30, 2007
COMMENTARY: While Hollywood swoons over teen guerrillas, the real lost boys are hidden in plain sight. Read more...


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African Refuge on CNN:
The African Refuge video entitled Life After Torture.



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Survivor of atrocities on a mission to aid others
From horrid civil war to life as an advocate on the North Shore
Monday, June 04, 2007
By Tevah Platt
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Hiding in the eave of a roof-- starving and forced to relieve himself where he lay-- Jacob Massaquoi had three days to remember the massacre he had just survived and to plot his escape across rebel lines in his native Liberia. Read more...