A Long Way Gone

I just started reading, A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah. So far it is about a kid and five friends who went to a talent show and returned to their village to find a war has reached the village. Now they are running from the war. But the war is chasing them. They stop in a village and are get caught by the chief.

Questions

How did the chief find them? How did the chief know they where their? Why did they stop when they saw the three men?

I think think the chief is going to help them. I was sickened because at one part a man's atestined where coming out of gun holes in he's chest.

By Joseph