Sierra Leone Civil War 1991-2001
In 1991 Mohamed and his cohort Samih Osailly organized Sierra Leone's Lebanese diamond traders for the purpose of trafficking the blood diamonds acquired by the from the mines the occupied in Sierra Leone.
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“He was high and mighty. But the kindest creature to his slaves—and the unfortunate results of his bad ways were not sold, had not to jump over ice blocks. They were kept in full view and provided for handsomely in his will. His wife and daughters in the might of their purity and innocence are supposed never to dream of what is as plain before their eyes as the sunlight, and they play their parts of unsuspecting angels to the letter.”
—Anonymous Antebellum Confederate Women. Previously quoted by Mary Boykin Chesnut in Mary Chesnut’s Civil War, edited by C. Vann Woodward (1981)
“There are two things which will always be very difficult for a democratic nation: to start a war and to end it.”
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