What Are The Effects Of The Sierra Leone Civil War

To start out, Sierra Leone is a country in West Africa whose history for a long time has not been good. The West African country was established by the Temne and Mende local tribes in the area but soon after it flourished the Scramble of Africa took place and Britain took control in 1787. From then on the European imposed a hut tax and would utilize most of Sierra Leone’s natural resources to make themselves wealthy. This caused the government today to even be weak and Africans to be anti-european like Japan was. Finally the country gained its independence from Britain in 1961 as an effect of World War II. Despite this change for the better the Sierra Leone Civil War started exactly 3 decades later in 1991 and lasted until 2002. This civil war was between the government and a group known as the rebels and resulted in many civilians deaths. After all the fighting, the government got help from the British and won the civil war. As a result to this long civil war the government was less wealthy as you would expect but at
Both sides the Government and The Rebels would recruits kids into the military because numbers became so low. The only difference between the two sides were how they recruited.The rebels would tell the kids they can either fight for their side or die while the government just told kids like Ishmael that they would most likely die if they didn’t join the military and used others as example making children think it was the only choice. Once in the military children were given drugs and pills to brainwash them and feel immune. They became addicted and focused on nothing else but war and drugs. As a result to this the kids when at war both sides would go to villages and kill citizens just like what happened to them earlier so they could steal their supplies to fight and persecute the opposite side. This caused the citizens to be the real victims in the war the and is one of the reasons why it was so