Freetown, Sierra Leone ... [ANN] Aid workers from the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) evacuated a hospital and rehabilitation camp for war amputees in the town of Waterloo amid a rebel advance on West African intervention troops defending the government, according to recent press reports. The war among the government and members of Sierra Leone’s ousted military junta and its rebel allies has been on-going for 10 months, according to a news report by the Associated Press. The press report indicated that thousands of people have been killed, raped and maimed by the rebels in a sweeping revenge campaign against the government. The hospital and rehabilitation camp where the aid workers were housed is 20 miles east of Freetown.[Dixil Rodriguez]
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