
When the first bullet was
fired at Bomaru on March 23, 1991, I had just gotten out of prison with my
father and walked back to Sierra Leone from Liberia. We had been arrested by
Charles Ganghay Taylor’s National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL) rebels and
incarcerated on the outskirts of Voinjama. I was only about eight or nine years
old and as a child I had no idea why we were in jail. Years later I would come
to learn that Ganghay Taylor was retaliating for Sierra Leone’...
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