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Mon 08 Aug 2007Grown-up child soldiers can only hope for better lifeHad Mohammed and Meshach met seven years ago, they would have tried to kill each other. Both were child soldiers in Sierra Leone's brutal civil war. Mary Fitzgeraldwrites from Freetown.At the age of nine Mohammed was forced to join the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebels at gunpoint by the same people that killed his mother and two sisters. Meshach fought for the pro-government Kamajor militia.