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...also added that she thought the replication of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on college campuses overseas between different student groups was not productive...
Naomi T. Saks, president of the Divinity School’s Jewish Student Association and one of the organizers, said that she hoped the event gave students a different understanding of the conflict...
Cecilia G. Owen––a third-year HDS student, said that she was impressed by the OneVoice speakers even though she said that she did not agree with their method of resolving the conflict...
...Days before the conflict finished, though, the government of then President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah asked the U.N. to help set up a process to bring the worst offenders to justice. Out of that plea was formed the Special Court for Sierra Leone, a first of its kind: a collaboration between international and national justice and, unlike similar courts set up after wars in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, one established on the soil where the crimes took place. (See pictures of the fallout in Congo by James Nachtwey...
...What does it mean for Sierra Leone? This country suffered enormously during this conflict. Some of the most heinous and brutal acts in the history of human warfare were committed here. Tens of thousands were murdered. Tens to hundreds of thousands of women were raped or turned into bush wives and sex slaves. There was this incredibly bestial practice of cutting off limbs, chopping arms and hands. Children were made to commit acts that adults could not commit. It was a campaign of terror. And this was not a war fought as we think of it, but one exclusively targeted...