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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Famous quotes containing the words civil and/or war:
“If we love-and-serve an ideal we reach backward in time to its inception and forward to its consummation. To grow is sometimes to hurt; but who would return to smallness?”
—Sarah Patton Boyle, U.S. civil rights activist and author. The Desegregated Heart, part 3, ch. 3 (1962)
“They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.”
—Bible: Hebrew Isaiah, 2:4.
The words reappear in Micah 4:3, and the reverse injunction is made in Joel 3:10 (”Beat your plowshares into swords ...”)