Truth Challenges Justice in Freetown ; Sierra Leone Commission, Court Coexist Uneasily

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From the hills that rise above this capital, the daytime view is typical of West Africa.

Shacks of mud, tin and sheets of canvas or plastic share the slope with the concrete compounds of the foreign-aid workers and ministerial class. Downtown, ambitious high-rises, built in the heady days of the post-colonial era 40-plus years ago loom over rotting wooden houses, brick churches and the occasional pastel mosque.

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Truth Challenges Justice in Freetown ; Sierra Leone Commission, Court Coexist Uneasily

At night, when municipal power has been turned off and the cooking fires have burned out, much of the lower city is as black as any forest in the interior. The darkness is interrupted only by a yellow haze from the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL), where generators illuminate the compound of the United Nations court that holds the nine accused of "bearing the greatest responsibility" for a conflict that lasted 11 years, took 50,000 lives and shocked the world with its ...

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