Civil war between Commonwealth-backed government and rebel factions

Theorizing the disfigured body : mutilation, amputation, and disability in post-conflict Sierra Leone / Ernest Cole.

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Sierra Leone - History - Civil War, 1991-2002

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Theorizing the disfigured body : mutilation, amputation, and disability in post-conflict Sierra Leone / Ernest Cole.