By Mohamed Sinneh Kamara (ATJLF/MRCG Fellow 2025)
Foday Sesay, a builder living at Old Railway Line Wellington, said on 6th January 1996 when the rebels entered Freetown, their area was a sensitive spot. City Road (Wellington) is a sensitive spot because lot of disaster took place in this area including burning of houses. Killing of soldiers by the rebels. Killing civilians etc. Just 9:00Pm on that day the rebels entered their community when they were outside. They had a group which is Civil Defence Unit (CDU) group. This group is a civil society group that was form in their community to protect and guide the community as well as to aid the Nigerian Soldiers in putting checkpoints during the curfew hours.
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