Momo was kidnapped from northern Liberia by government troops during a battle that killed most of his family. The next day, Momo, then 11, was handed a gun, shown the trigger and sent to the front line.
One day, he was ordered by his commander to shoot two men bound by rope and he did. “I was disappointed” he said. “I was given alcohol and marijuana to relax.”
After a cease-fire in Aug 2003, Momo was sent from a UN camp to live with a cousin, but his home, months later, seemed to be the streets. He rarely came home, his days slipping by without consequence.