Not always, no. And when we are not great, it has usually been because the people have been unable or unwilling or scared to be as large as the nation's ideals. History tells us it has happened too often: with the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, with slavery, with government censorship of periodicals and songs during the First World War, with the internment of Americans of Japanese heritage during the Second World War, with segregation, with McCarthyism, with government surveillance of civil rights workers and antiwar activists in the 1960s. We were on a road outside Freetown, Sierra Leone, en route to the tiny village of Yoyema when Saido Kamara asked me that. The drive to Yoyema, they told me, was about 75 miles. Getting there would take us half the day. Sierra Leone has few highways...
... carried out by Executive Outcomes in Sierra Leone in the early 1990s. With great skill and for...
...C. Judicial History. (1) Ontario Superior Court of Justice. 15 The app... including Kosovo, East Timor, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ethiopia, Haiti, Jo...
.... POST-CONFLICT TOOL . The history of Liberia's sanctions since has been post-conflic...
... observers with an appreciation for history and the official record have already noted, howeve...'s Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh (a former Sierra Leonean politician with international ambitions) (...
... of the atrocities that occurred in Sierra Leone in the 1990s. The explicit violence and expl... Blood Diamond will help to ensure that history does not repeat itself in other African countries ...
...Looking back over the history of United Nations (UN) peace operations, episodes ... commission focused on Burundi and Sierra Leone, convening meetings with relevant stakeholde...
... in Nova Scotia and created a new life in Sierra Leone have begun to receive considerable attention...She has given us an absorbing history that reads like a novel but in fact describes real...
.... I met John in 1993 in Sierra Leone at the Waterloo refugee camp, where I was se... into one of the bloodiest coups in modern history with terrible atrocities being inflicted on the ci...
... example is that in its operations in Sierra Leone from 1995 to 1997, it brought to heel the Re...History, in short, has not repeated itself. In fact, viole...
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