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Memuna Mansaray McShane who has many stories to tell, some of which she remembers and some she could not on what exactly happen before, during and after the civil war in Sierra Leone, as she becomes the government-chosen symbol for peace talks in the horrific civil war in Sierra Leone in the late 1990s.
As Sierra Leoneans remember the sad events that took place on January 6 which left many pains and destructions on many households especially in the nation’s capital-Freetown.
The press called her “Peace Girl.” An adorable wide-eyed child carried to peace talks by the Former President of Sierra Leone- Dr. Ahmed Tejan Kabbah of blessed memories, she represented the tens of thousands of victims maimed by rebels who used widespread amputations to terrorize the population for 11 years. Using machetes, they hacked off the hands and feet of civilians in a quest to take over Sierra Leone’s alluvial diamond region. Images of the girl and other children like her helped build the global political will to intervene and end the war.
