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World Service,22 May 2006,22 mins

Sierra Leone

Fault Lines

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Allan Little reported from Sierra Leone in the 1990s, during the bleakest times of the conflict that engulfed the country. He returned to examine some of the reasons why a place that offered such promise at Independence descended into chaos and brutality.

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