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  • Sheik, alone in his house with no money and nothing to do. A former security guard, he was retrained after his mutilation and became a baker. He has an oven but few people can afford to buy his bread. Several years ago his wife fled to the USA and took his children with her. Sometimes she sends money.  Village near Makeni, Sierra Leone 2004<br />
Rebel forces, the Revolutionary United Front in Sierra Leone, systematically murdered, mutilated, and raped civilians during the country's civil war as a policy of terror
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  • Members of an Amputee Football Team, practice on Lumley Beach, Freetown,  Sierra Leone 2004<br />
Rebel forces, the Revolutionary United Front in Sierra Leone, systematically murdered, mutilated, and raped civilians during the country's civil war as a policy of terror
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  • James and his wife Nbalu, sit and chat with their neighbours. Amputee and war Wounded resettlement camp, Hastings, Sierra Leone, 2004<br />
Rebel forces, the Revolutionary United Front in Sierra Leone, systematically murdered, mutilated, and raped civilians during the country's civil war as a policy of terror
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  • Amputees gather to pray on a Sunday in a makeshift chapel in a house. Makeni, Sierra Leone 2004.Rebel forces, the Revolutionary United Front in Sierra Leone, systematically murdered, mutilated, and raped civilians during the country's civil war as a policy of terror
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  • Ibrahim was amputated in Freetown in 1999 when the rebels occupied the Waterloo area. They tried to hack off his other hand but were unable to. Hastings resettlement camp, Freetown, Sierra Leone 2004<br />
Rebel forces, the Revolutionary United Front in Sierra Leone, systematically murdered, mutilated, and raped civilians during the country's civil war as a policy of terror
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  • A boy ponders his father's articicial legs, Makeni, Sierra Leone 2004.Rebel forces, the Revolutionary United Front in Sierra Leone, systematically murdered, mutilated, and raped civilians during the country's civil war as a policy of terror
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  • Saih, a streetchild who was amputated by the rebels has his stump massaged before his is fitted with a new artificial arm. Hanidicap International Centre, Freetown<br />
Rebel forces, the Revolutionary United Front in Sierra Leone, systematically murdered, mutilated, and raped civilians during the country's civil war as a policy of terror
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  • Siah and Mohammed (left) scavenge a city dump for plastic they can sell for recycling. Siah was amputated by the rebels and now lives on the streets. Freetown, Sierra Leone 2004<br />
Rebel forces, the Revolutionary United Front in Sierra Leone, systematically murdered, mutilated, and raped civilians during the country's civil war as a policy of terror
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  • Members of the Amputee Football Team practice heading the ball before an exhibition match to mark the opening of the Special Court in Sierra Leone. At the last minute they were told that they?Äôd have to play their match on the practice ground of the National Sadium instead of the main pitch. The anticipated crowd never came. Freetown, Sierra Leone 2004..Rebel forces, the Revolutionary United Front in Sierra Leone, systematically murdered, mutilated, and raped civilians during the country's civil war as a policy of terror
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  • A boy holds his mothers' false leg. She was amputated by rebels. Hastings resettlement camp for amputees, Freetown, Sierra Leone 2004<br />
Rebel forces, the Revolutionary United Front in Sierra Leone, systematically murdered, mutilated, and raped civilians during the country's civil war as a policy of terror
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  • A boy whose father is an amputee. Makeni resettlement camp for amputees, Makeni, Sierra Leone 2004<br />
Rebel forces, the Revolutionary United Front in Sierra Leone, systematically murdered, mutilated, and raped civilians during the country's civil war as a policy of terror
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  • Ibrahim and his daughter pull weeds from their plot of land in front of their House in Makeni resettlement village for amputees, Makeni, Sierra Leone 2004<br />
Rebel forces, the Revolutionary United Front in Sierra Leone, systematically murdered, mutilated, and raped civilians during the country's civil war as a policy of terror
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  • A boy ponders his father's articicial legs, Makeni, Sierra Leone 2004<br />
Rebel forces, the Revolutionary United Front in Sierra Leone, systematically murdered, mutilated, and raped civilians during the country's civil war as a policy of terror
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  • Ibrahim eats his meagre meal without  hands. His mother and child sleep next to him. Waterloo, Sierra Leone 2004<br />
Rebel forces, the Revolutionary United Front in Sierra Leone, systematically murdered, mutilated, and raped civilians during the country's civil war as a policy of terror
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  • Abubakr smoking. Waterloo camp, Freetown, Sierra Leone 2004<br />
Rebel forces, the Revolutionary United Front in Sierra Leone, systematically murdered, mutilated, and raped civilians during the country's civil war as a policy of terror
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  • Members of an Amputee Football Team practice their game in Makeni at a resettlement camp for war wounded and amputees. Sierra Leone 2004<br />
Rebel forces, the Revolutionary United Front in Sierra Leone, systematically murdered, mutilated, and raped civilians during the country's civil war as a policy of terror
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  • A woman brutally injured by rebels in an unsuccessful attempt to cut off her arm. The arm is now completely lifeless. The amputees carry the visible scars of the Sierra Leonian conflict on their bodies - a constant and painful reminder of the cruelty and damaged psyches of the years of war. Makeni, Sierra Leone 2004<br />
Rebel forces, the Revolutionary United Front in Sierra Leone, systematically murdered, mutilated, and raped civilians during the country's civil war as a policy of terror
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  • Ibrahim, a double amputee and his cosmetic prothesis. Hastings camp, Freetown.<br />
Rebel forces, the Revolutionary United Front in Sierra Leone, systematically murdered, mutilated, and raped civilians during the country's civil war as a policy of terror
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  • Safia, 14 was forced to watch her father murdered. Because she cried, the rebels dripped molten plastic into her eyes. Miilton Margai School for the Blind, Freetown, Sierra Leone 2004.<br />
Rebel forces, the Revolutionary United Front in Sierra Leone, systematically murdered, mutilated, and raped civilians during the country's civil war as a policy of terror
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  • Sheik, 38 a former security manager at a diamond mine in Kono. His arm was amputated by rebels and then, because he was screaming so much, they cut off his ears..Sheik and his family have taken in an orphan amputee girl. Freetown, Sierra Leone 1999.
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  • In a bed in Connaught hospital, a man who was recently amputated and then fitted with an artificial leg, ponders his future. Freetown, Sierra Leone 1999
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  • An artificial arm hangs to dry in the sun, camp for Amputees on the edge of Freetown, Sierra Leone. Handicap International, the French NGO has been instrumental in making of prosthetics and passing on those skills to local craftsmen. Freetown, Sierra Leone1999
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  • A man works at using his new artificial arm, Handicap International rehab centre, Murraytown Amputee Camp, Freetown, Sierra Leone 1999
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  • An amputtee exercise his stump ready for a new artificial limb to be fitted. Murraytown Camp, Freetown, Sierra Leone 1999
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  • Hassan Fufona and another victim of the amputations are fed by boys af a cafe after begging. Freetown, Sierra Leone 1999
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  • Two tailors work together in the Murraytown Amputee Camp in Freetown, Sierra Leone 1999
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  • Hassan Fofona, 16, crippled by polio since he was 10 was caught by the rebels who hacked of his good arm on a tree stump. From a very poor family, he cannot work and so must beg. Freetown, Sierra Leone 1999
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  • A father and son, both amputees, walk to their tent in the rain. Murraytown amputee camp, Freetown, Sierra Leone 1999
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  • Hassan Fofona begs for money outside the central post office in Freetown. Hassan, 16, crippled by polio since he was 10 was caught by the rebels who hacked of his good arm on a tree stump. From a very poor family, he cannot work and so must beg.  freetown, Sierra Leone 1999
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  • A woman's now uselesss hand.?ÄúThey couldn?Äôt cut it off...?Äù Makeni, Sierra Leone, 2004
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  • A young girl constantly counts her remaining fingers. Murraytown Amputee Camp, Freetown Sierra Leone 1999
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  • These Sierra Leonian amputees get used to walking on their ?Äúnew?Äù legs. It?Äôs hard work - the stumps are still soft and movement is painful. Their instructor, a Sierra Leonian used to working with the naturally handicapped gently scolds his charges, urging them to stand for longer periods and to imagine that they ?Äú...are just like babies.?Äù Freetown, Sierra Leone 1999
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  • A mangled, headless, pigeon lies on the pavement on London's Piccadily in the capital. The gory corpse of the bird that has somehow been torn apart lies on the street for pedestrians to avoid as they pass-by near Bond Street. Its wing is splayed out in the shadows and a single foot sticks out in sunlight, the end of an existence on London's buildings, looking for scraps and crumbs.
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