By Alfred Koroma (ATJLF/MRCG Fellow 2025)
Sierra Leone’s 11-year civil war (1991–2002) remains a harrowing case study in the consequences of systemic legacy of injustice, exclusion, and unaccountability. When the war officially ended in 2002, the nation celebrated the disarmament of rebels and the return of peace. Yet beneath the surface lay a deeper crisis, one that the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) would later reveal was decades in the making.
More than 50,000 lives were lost, countless limbs severed, and communities ravaged, not just by bullets and machetes, but by years of inequality, marginalization, and state failure.
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