By Alfred Koroma (ATJLF/MRCG Fellow 2025)
When the war ended in 2002, a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was set up to investigate the war. The Commission’s report, backed by testimonies offered a path forward with dozens of recommendations.
Twenty years later, some of those recommendations remain unfulfilled.
“I feel like the country just moved on and left us behind,” Catco Sesay, a 34-year-old war amputee in Waterloo told Concord Times in an interview early this year. Catco lost his right arm at the age of six in Old Port Loko, a village along the Freetown Road in Port Loko District, during the eleven-year civil war, a conflict that claimed over 50,000 lives and displaced thousands more.
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