Beah and Reporters at Odds Author Ishmael Beah released an adamant statement yesterday in response to a series of articles in The Australian defending every aspect of his book, and accusing the man who led to the Australian’s investigation and the paper’s reporters of “defamation” and of “us[ing] innuendo against me when there is no fact. Though apparently, they believe anything they are told — unless it comes from me or supports my account. Sad to say, my story is all true.… I was right about my family. I am right about my story. This is not something one gets […]
