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Article: Sierra Leone's 'see no evil' pact; Why, a mother asks, is there no war-crimes tribunal here?(World)(Sierra Leone - A Wrenching Peace)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- September 15, 1999
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The rebels who lined up Victoria Kajue's family against a wall and opened fire will never be punished for killing her six children - or the tens of thousands of other civilians who died in one of the most barbaric civil wars this continent has ever seen.
"I saw them execute all of my children and a two-year-old grandson," says Mrs. Kajue, caressing photos of her lost children with trembling fingers. "And I have nowhere to lay a complaint. I have no justice."
The eight-year campaign of terror waged by the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) against this West African country ended in July with a peace pact that gives a blanket amnesty for war crimes committed ...