Table of Contents

Introduction 1. The Use of Child Soldiers in South Sudan 2. Building the Red Army 3. The Red Army in Cuba: Plantation Labourers and ‘Vanguard’ of the SPLA 4. Nightshift at the Slaughterhouse 5. The ‘Cubans’ 6. Post-war Status of Red Army Veterans 7. Mathiang Anyoor: The ‘Third Wave’ of Child Soldiers

About the Author

Carol Berger is a Commonwealth Scholar and the holder of a DPhil in Anthropology from the University of Oxford. She is a former foreign correspondent, reporting from the Horn of Africa and the Middle East, and has conducted research and analysis for the UN Mission in South Sudan.