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Sierra Leone: Victims of War
Former Liberian president Charles Taylor has been found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity by a special tribunal in The Hague for his role in Sierra Leone's 11-year conflict from 1991-2002 left thousands dead.
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Victims of mutilations perpetrated by rebels of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) gather at the Handicap International camp in Freetown, May 18, 2000. (AFP)
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Victims of mutilations perpetrated by Revolutionary United Front forces and their families stand in a camp of the Non governmental organization "Handicap International" in Freetown, May 18, 2000. (AFP)
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Brothers Junisa, 12, (L) and Momo Kabba, 13, whose parents and grandparents were killed during the civil war and who now work tilling rice fields for the equivalent of US$0.70 per day, pose for a portrait in the village of Bomaru, where the conflict start
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A headstone marks a mass grave of rebel victims in the village of Bomaru, where the conflict started in 1991, in eastern Sierra Leone, April 22, 2012. (Reuters)