Confirmation that Child Soilders in african conflicts are being drugged so that they can obey, and are phyiscally able to perform acts required of them.

stimulants are favoured and the leaf they are talking about is most likely khat, a common drug in that part of the world .

the article is also interesting for the context it puts these children in, it seems to be cowboys and indians with ak 47s and we all know what happened to the indians.