Tuesday, October 25, 2005
Photo journal: A Sierra Leone woman's struggle after rebels cut off her hand - BBC News
During Sierra Leone's decade-long civil war, rebels developed the horrific tactic of chopping off the hands or legs of civilians as a way of sowing terror in the population. ...
They put my left hand on a table and chopped it off with a machete. I begged for mercy and asked them to think of God. They told me to point to God with my right hand and they tried to chop that off, too. They tried three times but could not cut it off. But I cannot use three fingers on my right hand. ...
I was in agony - I thought I would die. I went to hospital but all the doctors had run away.
The city was full of corpses.
My left hand was hanging on by the skin and started to rot. ...
I am not too interested in punishing those who cut my hand off but I want my children to be taken care of.
The former rebel fighters are being well looked after, with skills training and free education for their children.
The Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission said we amputees should get a pension but we have seen nothing, although a Norwegian charity built this house for me and my family. ...
Sometimes when my children get into an argument at school, people say to them: "Your mother is a half-person." It is really upsetting....
I work with the War Affected Amputees Association ... Sometimes, I travel ... around the country meeting other amputees and trying to campaign for our rights.
During Sierra Leone's decade-long civil war, rebels developed the horrific tactic of chopping off the hands or legs of civilians as a way of sowing terror in the population. ...
They put my left hand on a table and chopped it off with a machete. I begged for mercy and asked them to think of God. They told me to point to God with my right hand and they tried to chop that off, too. They tried three times but could not cut it off. But I cannot use three fingers on my right hand. ...
I was in agony - I thought I would die. I went to hospital but all the doctors had run away.
The city was full of corpses.
My left hand was hanging on by the skin and started to rot. ...
I am not too interested in punishing those who cut my hand off but I want my children to be taken care of.
The former rebel fighters are being well looked after, with skills training and free education for their children.
The Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission said we amputees should get a pension but we have seen nothing, although a Norwegian charity built this house for me and my family. ...
Sometimes when my children get into an argument at school, people say to them: "Your mother is a half-person." It is really upsetting....
I work with the War Affected Amputees Association ... Sometimes, I travel ... around the country meeting other amputees and trying to campaign for our rights.
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