Photos taken by Nathalie Barge in Sierra Leone and Guinea between May, 2000 and January, 2002.
The Legacy of Charles Taylor: Images of Victims and Refugees
Former child soldiers of the AFRC, Armed Forced Revolutionary Council of Johnny Paul Koroma, near Freetown, Sierra Leone, May, 2000. (N. Barge/VOA)
Refugees from Sierra Leone at the Guinean border, May, 2000. (N. Barge/VOA)
A Liberian woman in Guinea who was a victim of the rebels, 2000. (N. Barge/VOA)
Victims of the rebels in Sierra Leone in a refugee camp in Guinea, 2000. (N. Barge/VOA)
Former child soldiers of the AFRC, Armed Forced Revolutionary Council of Johnny Paul Koroma, near Freetown, Sierra Leone, May, 2000. (N. Barge/VOA)
Former child soldiers of the AFRC, Armed Forced Revolutionary Council of Johnny Paul Koroma, near Freetown, Sierra Leone, May, 2000. (N. Barge/VOA)
A father and his daughter at a refugee camp in Guinea, 2000. (N. Barge/VOA)
Ex members of the RUF mine for diamonds at Tongo field near Bo, eastern Sierra Leone, January, 2002. (N. Barge/VOA)
Ex members of the RUF mine for diamonds at Tongo field near Bo, eastern Sierra Leone, January, 2002. (N. Barge/VOA)
A Canadian battalion of the UNAMSIL, United Mission in Sierra Leone, taking inventory of arms used in the civil war near Bo, eastern Sierra Leone, 2002. (N. Barge/VOA)
Ceremonial arms destruction in Bo, eastern Sierra Leone, to celebrate the end of the war, January, 2002. (N. Barge/VOA)