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Sierra Leone
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The atrocities committed in the Sierra Leone civil war has been described as some of the worst in recent memory. This website gives a background to the conflict, chronicles atrocities against civilians, and the use of child soldiers in the conflict. Contact information for war related organizations also available.
http://www.freespeech.org/isierra-leone/civilwar/index.html
News, campaign and advocacy documents on Civil War in Sierra Leone with a special focus on Human Rights concerns during conflict situation.
http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/sierra/index.htm
Award-winning film portraying the events of January 1999 in Freetown, capital of Sierra Leone.
http://www.cryfreetown.org
This web site looks into global issues, and has over 3000 links to external articles, web sites reports and analysis are used to provide credence to the arguments made on this web site. The section on conflicts in Africa provides background information on the current conflict in Sierra Leone.
http://www.globalissues.org/Geopolitics/Africa/SierraLeone.asp
Short profile and interview with Sierra Leone's newly re-elected President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah by Time magazine.
http://www.time.com/time/europe/...0,13005,901020826-338590,00.html
Archived news and features from 1999.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/speci...99/01/99/sierra_leone/251251.stm
Archived news and features from 2000.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_de...ca/2000/sierra_leone/default.stm
Archived reports from Sierra Leone Web.
http://www.sierra-leone.org/slnews.html
Offers information on the mandate of UNAMSIL, UN documents, news and press releases, and map.
http://www.un.org/Depts/dpko/missions/unamsil/index.html
Annotated links including goverment, NGO, media and international organizations.
http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/cwa/index.cfm?Parent=619