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Article: Death and Diamonds [A Dirty War in West Africa: The RUF and the Destruction of Sierra Leone]
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- Literary Review of Canada
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- June 1, 2006
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Death and Diamonds An African journalist-turned-academic tries to make sense of the chaos that enveloped Sierra Leone. A Dirty War in West Africa: The RUF and the Destruction of Sierra Leone Lansana Gberie Indiana University Press 224 pages, softcover ISBN 0253218551
From 1991 to 2002, the tiny West African nation of Sierra Leone suffered a series of vicious internal conflicts-too chaotic to merit the term civil war-that left at least 20,000 people dead. The world press paid only sporadic attention to the carnage and its ever-shifting players. For most of us, one image persists: the Revoluntionary United Front rebels and the .. children they abducted amputating the hands and arms of ...