Saturday, August 11, 2007

Elections in Sierra Leone...will they be conflict-free?

BBC Article
I thought the BBC did the best job on covering the news about the elections in Sierra Leone today. So here is the article.


The current president, President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah won the first elections to take place after the 5 year civil war in Sierra Leone which led to the killing and mutilation of over 50,000 people.

"British intervention in 2002 led to the official end of the war. It made way for the disarming of tens of thousands of rebels and militia fighters by UN peacekeepers, who withdrew in December 2005, according to the BBC."

So my question is, why can the Bush administration pull something like this off soon so we can end the freaking war!?

Anyway, I hope their elections go smoothly today...

1 comment:

CaraS said...

This article was posted by ADINA by the way=)