Box 802

Scope and Contents Interview with Aminata Bangura, a 15-year old girl from Kabala. She was abducted by SLA soldiers when she was 10 years old. She tells the interviewer that many other girls and boys were also abducted. Her abductors raped her, and it was only later when she was in Freetown that she discovered that she was 4 months pregnant. Her father wanted her to have an abortion, but eventually accepted the situation and allowed her to have the child. Aminata recounts the time she spent in the bush when...