Memoire of a girl born in Sierra Leone who, at the age of 12, had her hands amputated by boy-rebel soldiers.
One of the young rebels threw down his torch and grabbed the machete slung on his back. In one violent swoop, he chopped off the woman's head. The baby wailed as the woman's body fell back into the house on top of him. Her head rolled onto the road toward me. I started to cry again, and my body convulsed. "Do you want to join them?" the rebel watching over me threatened. Part of me did.
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An impoverished country on the West Coast of Africa
