China keitetsi biography

At nine years old, China Keitetsi was fighting with a gun she was barely big enough to carry.

Keitetsi, a former member of the National Resistance Army (NRA) in Uganda, recounted her story—a childhood spent killing in the bush, brutal rape and torture at the hands of superiors and an escape to Denmark—last night at Emerson hall to draw attention to the horrors faced by child soldiers in conflicts in Africa.

She is working to bring to justice adult military commanders who recruit child soldiers and to give a voice to those children.

“They have created these wars and we fight them because we are nobody’s child, so it’s ok,” she said.

Keitetsi is also raising publicity for her book, My Life as a Child Soldier in Uganda, which is currently a bestseller in Germany.

It has not yet been released in the United States.

Now 26, Keitetsi fled Uganda in 1995 and currently resides in Denmark.

Since she made it to Europe, she has commit THE SATURDAY PROFILE; A Former Child Soldier Fights Her ... XOB