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Except for the sound of the rain, on the road, on the roofs, on the umbrella, there was absolute silence: only the dying moan of the sirens continued for a moment or two to vibrate within the ear. It seemed to Scobie later that this was the ultimate border he had reached in happiness: being in darkness, alone, with the rain falling, without love or pity.
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love
sierra-leone
pity
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Graham Greene |
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Many signs point to the fact that the youth of the Third World will no longer tolerate living in circumstances that give them no hope for the future. From the young boys I met in the demobilization camps in Sierra Leone to the suicide bombers of Palestine and Chechnya, to the young terrorists who fly planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we can no longer afford to ignore them. We have to take concrete steps to remove the causes of their rage, or we have to be prepared to suffer the consequences.
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politics
chechnya
international
suicide-bombers
sierra-leone
rwanda
terrorism
palestine
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Roméo Dallaire |
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fb7a278
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We took a bowl each and started eating. He went back into the little room, and by the time he returned to the table with his own bowl of food to eat with us, we had already finished. He was shocked and looked around to see if we had done something else with the food.
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war
sierra-leone
sad
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Ishmael Beah |
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fe6b625
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Children played guessing games, telling each other whether the gun fired was and AK-47, a G3, an RPG, or a machine gun.
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coming-of-age
memoirs
sierra-leone
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Ishmael Beah |
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d23a137
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I was so happy that my mother, father, and two brothers had somehow found one another. Perhaps my mother and father have gotten back together, I thought.
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sierra-leone
innocence
sad
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Ishmael Beah |