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For over nine years the people of solid mineral resources rich country Sierra Leone have drunk and bellywised from the bitter life imposed on them by the draconia and white sepulchre regimes in Freetown; and the satanic movement of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) and the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC).
Before these years in the world of violence and war Sierra-Leone was not known; the Sierra  Leonean went about his/her mining, farming and fishing in which nature has richly endured the country. A country once discribed as El-dorado by a Lebanese refugee. The El-dorado nature of Sierra-Leone was not only based on the natural resources but also on the ground that she has been a country of settlers even before the arrival of Pedro da Cintra in 1462; the recaptives (the Krios) from Nova Scotia, England and America; and before the coming of the British imperialists. This was why Sierra Leone with a population of 4.5 million had been a harbour of refuge for thousands of refugees from Lebanon, Syria, Liberia, Ethiopia, Angola  et cetera.

So, having been a country with mild political problems the world could not understand the call for help by persecuted Sierra Leoneans against the human rights abuses by SLPP goverment under Malam  Ahmed Tejan Kabbah´s cosmetic  and  kangaroo democracy, with much sycophancy from Nigeria, Ghana, Guinea and  Britain; and the infamous armed opposition groups with Libya,Liberia and Burkina-Faso as back bones. Many who  sought  refuge in other lands were turned back on the ground that there was no official reports of problems in Sierra Leone.
How could there have been official reports when Freetown spent thousands of dollar on advertising that the situation was peaceful and calm; and discribed people fleeing the country as unpatriotic and unscrupulous  citizens; while at the sametime the armed opposition groups and the goverment sponsored SLA, the Kamajors, Capras and Tamaboros militias inflicted hardship on the citizens. They took laws into their hands, had no respect for United Nation Declaration on the human rights or that of humanitarian laws.They force people to believe in and join them in their satanic  movenments  and  had  no  lesson from   the war crime  tribune in  Bosnia. Thousands of people were maimed; the youngest being Adu Sesay who was one month old when his limb was hacked off. Thousands of children were abducted and turned to child combatants, spys, drug addicts, peddlers or killers. Many of the child combatant did not know in full what they were doing, some were delighted with the new  life and the sounds of AK47 gun upon which they practised and acted the superman Rambo and exercised authority on the innocent Sierra Leoneans. Some were sent to exterminate families or persons  with a contra weltanschauung to theirs. The armed opposition groups and government militias groups also perpetrated systematic organised and widespread sexual violence against girls and women; most were under ten years and over forty-five years. According to Rose Luz an International Rescue Committee (IRC) "they rape whomever they stumbled across". .And from the IRC records the youngest victim of sexual rape was five years and the oldest seventy-five years. The source also said many young girls, boys and women are still being held in sexual and labour slavery.Killing of pregrant woman  calls for celebration since according to the militias it was better for the unborn  not be.

With these horrors and memories that redden the spirit and mental one welcomed peace accord based on justice, because such is supreme and most needed in Sierre-Leone.
But unlike many countries outside Africa that have had this peace accord before my dear country where all parties involved were represented; and like in many African countries with similar cases, ours was between the two elephants that rock horns. Something tells me now that in modern time no Africa peace accord has produced any good result in settling internal or regional problems - think  of  Polisalio, (Saharawi), Congo Kinshasa. How many such accords have  been done by Angola, Algeria, Ethiopia, Eriteria and Liberia or Burundi and Sudan;  why? It is, because with much sycophancy  and yet non-commitement for a true  peace accord  from the western countries the accord is always a white-sepulchre without any thought on the remote cause of the problems.

In the case of Sierra-Leone, the victims and opposition parties, the Sea Tigers, and other groups were not involved at Lome accord last last July. This is no longer the peace accord we had hoped for; where the victims of war receives consolation from justice done, where justice takes away every shackles and  memories of brutal war.Rather,what we saw was  a power sharing deals  proposed by Liberia, Burkina faso and Cöte dÍvoire leaders who for years have backed thearmed opposition groups and made fortunes  from illicit diamonds sales by the armed opposition groups through their corridors; and  that of  Mr. Patrick S. Bockare a Sierra-Leonean in San Bernadino CA, a godfather to the rebels of RUF who on the 26th February, 1999 made a such power sharing proposal.

Mr. Kabbah, accepting this one-sided proposals, said  aufwiedersehen  to justice by offering a general amnesty to the armed opposition  groups who together with govenrment SLA, kamajors, Capras, and Tamaboros committed gross human rights violation in recent history. Kabbah will do anything possible to stop any step by International Community to start war crime tribune in Sierra-Leone; because he is also afraid of his own crimes,and to take it home in Krio,"ogiri noh de laf  kenda foh smehl" (ogiri which smells can not laugh Kenda which smells too.). Two journalists Ayodele Lukobi Johnson and Ayodele Walters are now in detention in Freetown over a newspaper report that president Kabbah did a human ritual sacrifice (cannibalism) of a Sierra-Leonean virgin girl during his exile in Guinea in order to regain his presidency.  (see Africa News online-Sierre-Leone 21.2.00 and The International Freedom of Expression Exchange, Feb. 18, 20.00 Toronto). Kabbah on the 17th December,1998 carried out the execution of twenty-four army officers and two non-military women, one a seventy-five year old who were accused of coup d`etat against his regime(see.www.amnesty.org.uk/cgi-bin/search/search.cgi/sierra+leone)

As part of the "peace accord" between the Kabbah government and the rarmed opposition group of RUF(Revolutionary United Front), Sankoh was appointed chairman of the strategic mineral resources commission and the rank of a vice-president. This gives Sankoh  right over eighty percent of the country's revenue. He is also given the right to appoint his choice  as ministers. He had this January bleached the UN ban on him of making foreign trip. He toured to Liberia, Côte d'Ivoire and South Africa on what he called a "diplomatic mission". A newspaper report said he (Sankoh) made millions dollar sales of diamonds in South Africa.

But more crucifying here is that Freetown is paying USS 300, food and clothing materials to each of over forty-six thousand  armed opposition groups  in order to get them disarmed, this is  a big amount of money in Sierra-Leone. One is sure Kabbah will spend a diamond secretly on  his militias, while  thousands of children are displaced from their families, no medication, food and house for innocent citizens - the victims of war and bonfide to such compensation.It is the case of poh man no geht sai (poor has no say) a common phenomenon in Sierra-leone  legal and political culture. It is indeed time to ask quo vadis Sierre Leonia? When Kabbah because of his quest for power said aufwiedersehen to justice under the umbrella of general amnesty. Has the general amnesty and "peace accord" done any good to Sierra-Leone? Where the perpetrators of human rights violations now go about Freetown and around Sierra Leone declaring themselves as "saviours, redeemers and revolutionists" - Elder Collins a chieftain of RUF; whereas armed opposition groups  and Ahmed Kabba militiamen  continue to  do more havoc in rape, killing and mutilation. Some refugees  who returned to Sierra-Leone from Guinea and Nigeria were either killed or mutilated on the ground that they have no more place in Sierra-Leone. Thousands of combatants still refused to be disarmed because they feel betrayed by the "peace accord" reached upon by their leaders.

Where does the child combatant who has lost sense of innocence, education, family modus vivandum belongs  to in this power sharing of a thing? I have not seen any action directed towards bringing sane and normalcy  into a combatant child. Many  children are still  being  used under force labour in  diamond  mines  by both government  and  armed opposition groups.The child rights voilations and abuses by both government of Kabbah and the armed opposition groups are on the increase. Both sides failed to know that a mal-normal and abused child is a greenlight to a declining and dying nation.
Again, seeing Sankoh forming a political party, Kabbah having every sycophancy for holding Sierre-Leone together teaches me more of Machiavelism than justice; where justice the only way to  sanity of a state is sent to a grave under the canopy of peace accord. Surely, such would  create a catena of political impasse.
 
 

READ ME ON : CAN WE SAY AUFWIEDERSEHEN TO JUSTICE?   Is justice a conditio sine qua -non to peace? ("We should forget about Constitution, and talk about power sharing" - Sankoh.)
BONE of CONTENTION in SIERRA LEONE.

AFRICAN LEADERS AND MACHIAVELISM
(MWALIMU JULIUS KANBRAJI NYERERE - MY DIAMOND, a humble and strong man; above all he was a model of leadership) (Mugabe's Scapegoatism of Zimbabwe's White Minority since Zimbabweans said NO to his ergo-centric  Referendum).
THERE IS NO  CLEAN DIAMONDS  IN SIERRA LEONE  NOW, JOIN THE CALL TO  BAN  SIERRA LEONE  DIAMONDS; by doing this you  will be helping to see end to this blood episode in Sierra Leone,you are  stopping human abuse especially that of women and children,you are saving hundreds  of  Sierra Leonean children who labour under duress in diamonds mines. Refusing diamonds  you are cutting short the finance avenue of the  sponsors of mid-east problems; and at the same time  you are saying  never again  to such acts like the USA embassies bombing in Kenya and  Tanzania.