"In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two years earlier, came into my life."

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Before the civil war, Pottibakia was a normal member of the Comity of Nations. She erected tariff walls, broke treaties, persecuted minorities, obstructed at conferences unless she was convinced there was no danger of a satisfactory solution; then she strained every nerve in the cause of peace.

— E. M. Forster