Worldfocus has chronicled Liberia’s struggles to recover from a bloody civil war that spanned 14 years in the signature series Liberia’s Long Road Back.
Some of the biggest victims of that era were young women who were often taken prisoner and forced to fight, or made into sex slaves. As Worldfocus special correspondent Lynn Sherr and producer Megan Thompson report, many of them are now struggling to recover and struggling to forget.
For more on the rehabilitation and reintegration of child soldiers, watch PBS Wide Angle’s film on child soldiers in Uganda, “Lord’s Children.”
10/04/2009 :: 05:59:52 PM
Suzie Says:
This outrageous act has happened throughout history, this being one of the more recent examples, but there was also the news of ‘Comfort Women’ in Japan during WW2 who have still not received even an apology from the Japanese Government and like these women deserve justice. This is not right and shouldn’t happen anywhere and something needs to be done about it.