The ground on which they stood -- Interlude 1: induction into politics -- Untimely suffering -- Turning and being turned -- Interlude 2: three men and loss -- Imfobe: the reach for moral principles -- Neutralizing the young
Summary
Filling a gap in the ethnographic analysis of the role of youth in armed conflict, this book describes, from the perspective of the young fighters themselves, the tactics that young local leaders used and how the state retaliated, young peoples' experiences of pain and loss, the effect on fighters of the extensive use of informers by the state as a weapon of war, and the search for an ethic of survival
