The Child Soldier Who Traded His Machete For a Pair of Scissors
Patrick Reed
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Posted 04.29.2013
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Roméo Dallaire declared: "I need a haircut." We had heard that just down the street was a barber shop where the young man cutting hair was a former child soldier. He turned in his weapons, trading a machete (or panga) for scissors, and learned a new trade: "I used to be forced to cut limbs; now I cut hair."