My Gun Was as Tall as Me: Child Soldiers in Burma

by Human Rights Watch

If you are a boy in Burma you are at constant risk, from as young as age eleven, of being picked up off the street and forced into the ay, you will be beaten during the training, and brutally punished if you try to run away. Once deployed, you are forced to fight against Burma's ethnic minorities and other opposition forces, and to carry out human right abuses such as burning houses, rounding up villages for labor , and even massacring civilians

213 pages, Paperback

First published November 5, 2002

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Human Rights Watch is one of the world’s leading independent organizations dedicated to defending and protecting human rights. By focusing international attention where human rights are violated, we give voice to the oppressed and hold oppressors accountable for their crimes. Our rigorous, objective investigations and strategic, targeted advocacy build intense pressure for action and raise the cost of human rights abuse. For more than 30 years, Human Rights Watch has worked tenaciously to lay the legal and moral groundwork for deep-rooted change and has fought to bring greater justice and security to people around the world.

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[Sarah Key · Rating 4 out of 5]

In my seventh grade class, this was used a companion text/comparative non-fiction text for a novel titled Bamboo People by Mitali Perkins.