The only way to survive as a child soldier is to be tougher, to be cooler, than the others - and to obey without question the senior officers who abuse you.
A decade after her escape from the military, China Keitetsi says she cannot forget the systematic rapes she suffered and the violence she was forced to commit.
She tells her story in the book Child Soldier, being published in the UK this week.
Now 27, Ms Keitetsi is an international campaigner on the plight of child soldiers and has set up a project to give those who escape from conflict a home.
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