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Re: [FT] Truth is stranger than the Tuffleyverse

From: "Oerjan Ohlson" <oerjan.ohlson@t...>
Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 13:57:09 +0200
Subject: Re: [FT] Truth is stranger than the Tuffleyverse

Alan and Carmel Brain wrote:

[snip link to Sierra Leone article]

>What can I say? It's a typical SG scenario come to life, but with
gratuitous
>torture and violence.

...and the only real difference between this and the struggles going on
in the highlands of Myanmar (former Burma), Somalia, Colombia... etc is
the main resource they're fighting for (diamonds rather than drugs) and
the level of violence against the civilian population.

There are lots of this stuff going on all over the . Sierra Leone is
where the newsies' attention is directed this week; next week it'll be
some other conflict :-(

Oerjan Ohlson
oerjan.ohlson@telia.com

"Life is like a sewer.
  What you get out of it, depends on what you put into it."
- Hen3ry

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