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The Western powers intervened to stop the bloodshed in Kosovo last year in a conflict that generated wide publicity. Yet the world all but ignored the gratuitous cruelties against civilians at the same time in Sierra Leone's civil war. Writer Steve Coll and photographer Michel duCille report from Africa's wounded heart. Read the Full Story  Maimed victims sheltered at a camp in Freetown, Sierra
Leone, give a human face to a civil war of brutal
savagery. Enter Victims Gallery From the strutting pretensions of the revolution’s
leadersto the war-weary faces of its child warriors, Sierra Leone reveals its rebel players. Enter Rebels Gallery | ||
Live Online Steve Coll, managing editor of the Washington Post, and Post photography editor Michel duCille fielded questions and comments about this article. Read the transcript. For More Information See the Sierra Leone Page in the World section. Credits Story by Steve Coll Photography by Michel duCille Design by Jayne Matricardi Photo Editing by Jane Menyawi Production by Christina De Los Santos Caption Editing by Kim Kostyal, Ju-Don Roberts, Ben de la Cruz | ||