There's no pride in having been a child soldier.

Any child soldier has to go through a lot of love, care and understanding to become normal.

When people know you've been a soldier, they judge you: you are a thief, a lost boy.

A lot of child soldiers lose their minds.

When I first went to school, I was fighting all the time. The soldier mentality was still in me. I kept getting expelled. I found it hard to take instructions from anyone who wasn't a military commander.

As a child, I didn't know what they mean by 'to die.' So I grew up in a place where people used to die all the time, but a child is not allowed to see a dead body. When you ask, 'Where is so-and so?' you're told, 'He's gone to another world where we all go to live in the future.'