Sierra Leone: Amputees win anti-corruption case, but still struggle for their rights
Mar 2008
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Amputees, victims of the civil war, playing
football on the beach. Freetown, April 2006.
Photo © Issouf Sanogo/AFP/Getty Images
football on the beach. Freetown, April 2006.
Photo © Issouf Sanogo/AFP/Getty Images
Kenema, March 7, 2008 – It took six years for amputee war victims in the eastern town of Kenema to finally win their legal battle against a corrupt official.
Although the official, Joseph Soffiana, was finally sentenced last December to five years in prison for fraud, the amputees are still struggling to get all the money that was awarded to them.
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