Mission impossible in bandit country Misguided intervention by Britain, among others, has left Sierra Leone in chaos, says Richard Dowden

The Independent - London | May 7, 2000| | Copyright

BRITISH MILITARY experts arrived yesterday in Sierra Leone, where at least one of their colleagues is among up to 300 United Nations peacekeepers trapped by a resurgent rebel army. Their first view of the stricken West African country may well be deceptive.

Everyone arriving at the international airport is flown by helicopter across the sparkling bay to Freetown, the capital. It is the second largest natural harbour in the world and Freetown, with its Gothic church towers and municipal buildings, looks like a small English coastal town beneath the massive lion-headed mountain that gives ...

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