SIERRA LEONE: Violent memories still haunt war orphans

KOINDU Wednesday, July 30, 2008 (IRIN) - Theresa, a vivacious 16-year-old girl, last saw her parents when they were dragged away from her in a crush of people fleeing into neighbouring Guinea after a rebel attack on their town during the civil war (1991-2000). She never found them again, and lived out the war and its aftermath in refugee camps, begging and selling her body to soldiers and men for scraps of food and money. Today Sierra Leone is at peace and Theresa is living with an aunt in...