Former child soldier writes book to benefit addicted

For Jemal Damtawe, spilling the traumatic details of life as a child soldier and violent gangster onto the pages of a book has been an important step along a path of faith and recovery.
Damtawe, 49, was profiled in a Postmedia news article in 2016 after receiving Coast Mental Health’s Courage to Come Back award in the addictions category. He shared parts of the traumatic events that led up to his recovery from drugs, from his time as a child soldier fighting in Ethiopia to his ba