Word: slaughtered
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Africa is a place where the West prefers to salve its conscience on the cheap. On the one hand, we feel a genuine moral pang when slaughter rages there. On the other, we are not willing to die ourselves to stop it. And sometimes a third factor makes the dilemma still more intractable: a warlord with absolutely no interest in peace. The result is Sierra Leone...
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...seems to wreck Africa's hopes is that so few of its strongmen are really interested in peace. Foday Sankoh and his Revolutionary United Front rampaged across Sierra Leone for nearly a decade, hacking the limbs off countless civilians in a blood-soaked quest for power. Sick of the slaughter, members of the international community brokered a peace pact that last July ultimately gave the rebels amnesty, a share in government power and a piece of the country's diamond wealth. It apparently wasn't enough, so violence has erupted again in poor, shattered Sierra Leone. And this time...
...center of the orgy of killing, maiming and torture that has gripped Sierra Leone for the past decade is a portly, ebullient former army corporal and wedding photographer. But Foday Sankoh doesn't personally hack the hands off children or slaughter their parents in his drive for political power and control over Sierra Leone's diamond fields; for that he relies on an army of abducted teenagers, forced at gunpoint to rape or kill loved ones - a brutal measure designed to cut off the road home - before being dragged into the bush, where Sankoh's drug-addled legions become their...
...time of the dawn raid. And House majority whip Tom DeLay went ballistic over the government's "jackbooted thugs." He was far more publicly incensed by U.S. marshals using guns to forestall the threatened violence of the Miami crowd than he ever was over guns used by children to slaughter their classmates...