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“Cry Freetown” (D: Ron McCullough, 2000) is journalist and cameraman Sorious Samura’s horrifying report from the bowels of Sierra Leone’s grisly civil war. In “Child Soldiers of Sierra Leone,” an episode of Showtime’s What’s Going On? (2003) series, Michael Douglas narrates this investigation into the exploitation of children in this war-torn, diamond-rich country.
This article appears in April 11 • 2008.
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