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	CNN In-Depth Specials - Cry Freetown: 'Now you may judge for yourself'
		Cry Freetown: 'Now you may judge for yourself'
		The resulting battle between RUF forces and Nigerian-led troops of the Economic Community Military Observer Group (ECOMOG) was a bloody march through streets and suburbs of Freetown.
		"Cry Freetown" was produced by Insight News Television.
	www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/2000/cryfreetown/documentary/index.html (299 words)

	Time Warner - Newsroom - Print This
		Cry Freetown is a captivating story about the brutality in Sierra Leone caught on camera by photojournalist Sorious Samura.
		Cry Freetown was co-produced by Insight News Television's LTD., CNN Productions and Channel 4 television in the United Kingdom.
		In 2001, Cry Freetown has been chosen as a finalist in various award competitions and continues to be submitted for screenings and awards in numerous countries.
	www.timewarner.com /corp/print/0,20858,668704,00.html (385 words)

	Freetown - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Freetown, population 1,070,200 (2004), is the largest city and capital of Sierra Leone, lyingon the Freetown Peninsula on the Atlantic coast.
		Freetown a heliport on Aberdeen Island, connecting the city with the airport.
		Freetown's suburbs stretch along the coast, from the East End Wellington, Kissy, Cline Town, Fourah Bay, Kossa Town and Foulah Town and a West End of Congo Town, Murray Town, Wilberforce and Aberdeen.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Freetown (555 words)

	CNN - Cry Freetown
		Captured and threatened by the rebels, Samura, escaped and during the next few days, while battle raged between rebel and Nigerian 'peacekeeping' forces in his country's civil war, Samura took his handheld camera and captured on video some of the atrocities committed by both sides as almost every-day acts of war.
		Now the award-winning cameraman returns to Sierra Leone in Cry Freetown to relive the story of the country's civil war that he risked his life to document.
		Cry Freetown includes much of the graphic and disturbing footage that Samura shot last year - and raises important questions about how much of the reality of war should be shown on television.
	edition.cnn.com /CNNPromos/cnn/cry.freetown (556 words)

	Freetown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		''For other cities of the same name, see Freetown (disambiguation).'' Freetown, population 1,070,200 (2004), is the largest city and capital of Sierra Leone, lying on the Freetown Peninsula on the Atlantic coast.
		Freetown is twinned with the city of Kingston upon Hull in northern England.
		The area was first settled in 1787 by freed slaves sent from England around the Cotton Tree, said to have previously been a slave market, by British abolitionists, who started the Sierra Leone Company.
	freetown.iqnaut.net (429 words)

	Sierra Leone Analysis - mattagee.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		After the January 1999 assault on the capitol Freetown, a failed peace agreement between the RUF and the government of Sierra Leone has given Sankoh legal control of the minerals (including diamonds), as well as granting amnesty for the atrocities committed during the was to that point.
		Speaking against the elite governing class of Freetown, which had neglected the rural population for decades, Sankoh was able to convey a successful revolutionary message to the impoverished people of the south.
		Documented in the film “Cry Freetown,” the actions of the ECOMOG force were at times as vicious as the rebels.
	www.mattagee.com /sl2.htm (6204 words)

	Sierra Leone
		The mountains behind Freetown rise to a maximum height of over 900 metres above sea level and the landscape, which includes high peaks and ridges separated by deep, picturesque valleys, is frequently spectacular.
		If you visit Freetown we can advice you to stay in the Aberdeen area at the cape where several hotels are located with some fine restaurant and Lumley Beach around the corner.
		Aberdeen is the safest area in Freetown due to its strategic position and that is also why the UN Unamsil HQ is based there.
	us-africa.tripod.com /sierra.html (722 words)

	CBC: Rough Cuts - Jan 1 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Sorious Samura first covered the issue of child soldiers in Cry Freetown, his award-winning documentary chronicling the savage war in Sierra Leone.
		In his latest documentary, Return To Freetown, Samura returns to his homeland to escort three brutalized children, who were in the RUF, back to their civilian lives.
		Return to Freetown is the emotional story of the homecoming of three such children.
	www.cbc.ca /roughcuts/feature_180602.html (424 words)

	"we'll kill you if you cry"
		The Krio, who are descendants of freed slaves, were settled in the area of Freetown (now the capital) in the late eighteenth century and make up 10 percent of the total population.
		The battle for Freetown and ensuing three-week rebel occupation of the capital were characterized by the systematic and widespread perpetration of a wide range of abuses against the civilian population, and marked the most intensive and concentrated period of human rights abuses and international humanitarian law violations in Sierra Leone's ten-year civil war.
		During a demonstration in Freetown to protest the collapse of the peace process and hostage taking of the peacekeepers, twenty-two civilians were killed outside the house of the RUF leader, Sankoh.
	www.hrw.org /reports/2003/sierraleone/sierleon0103-05.htm (10763 words)

	African journalist to speak at Ohio University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		ATHENS, Ohio -- African journalist and cameraman Sorious Samura, whose "Cry Freetown" documentary on his native Sierra Leone won him and CNN an Emmy nomination last year, will speak and screen his work as part of the annual "African Heroes Day" from 5 to 8 p.m.
		"Cry Freetown," which aired on "CNN Perspectives," documents the plight of Sierra Leone, a west African nation of 5.5 million people where thousands have been killed and nearly half the population has been driven from their homes in a war directly related to the diamond trade.
		Now living in the United Kingdom, Samura recently finished filming "Return to Freetown," a documentary in which Samura returns to Africa to escort three child soldiers back to their civilian lives.
	www.ohiou.edu /news/01-02/214.HTML (175 words)

	Sierra Leone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Europeans used the land as a source for slaves, but in 1787 Freetown was established as a city for former slaves living in London.
		In 1808, Sierra Leone became a British Crown Colony, which it remained until halfway through the 20th century, when the process of de-colonisation was commenced.
		Major cities are the capital Freetown, Koidu (Sefadu), Bo, Kenema and Makeni.
	sierra-leone.iqnaut.net (913 words)

	Sierra Leone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The capital Freetown was founded in 1792 by the Sierra Leone Company as a home for Black Britons who had fought for the British in the American Revolutionary War.
		In 1808, Freetown became a British Crown Colony, and in 1896, the interior of the country became a British Protectorate.
		Europeans used the land as a source for slaves, but in 1792 Freetown was established as a haven for Black Loyalist ex-slaves who had initially been settled in Nova Scotia after the American Revolutionary War.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sierra_Leone (1846 words)

	Passion Junkie Absolute Reality of the World
		More than a year later I viewed a videotape called Cry Freetown that a friend had given me to watch.
		Freetown is the capital city of Sierra Leone on the West Coast of Africa.
		Videographer Sorious Samura, a longtime resident and local corespondent in Freetown, documented the brutal civil war taking place in the streets.
	www.atwillett.com /passion_junkie/absolute_reality.html (524 words)

	Online NewsHour -- Sierra Leone
		The declaration of peace is also seen as a victory for United Nations peacekeepers who fought a sometimes deadly battle to disarm thousands of rebels.
		Award-winning photojournalist Sorious Samura discussed the brutal civil war in his native country of Sierra Leone.
		RealVideo: Excerpts from Samura's "Cry Freetown" as broadcast on the NewsHour.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/africa/sierra_leone/home.html (510 words)

	Film and Fiction Fusion
		In 1989 Ron McCullagh was nominated by the BBC for the Sony 'Radio Journalist of the Year' awards, in 1998 at the One World Broadcasting Trust Media Awards he won the UNICEF UK Award for the Advancement of Children's Rights for the report on child workers in Bangladesh which he reported, filmed, produced and edited.
		It's called the Rory Peck Award and in November 1999 I was in the audience along with 300 of the great and the good in the television news industry.
		As soon as Samura's gruesome footage of what happened in Freetown, Sierra Leone the previous January was shown, we knew there was no contest.
	www.webdelsol.com /SolPix/sp-ronnterview.htm (2533 words)

	TIME Europe Magazine: "Who Represents The Innocents?" -- October 11, 2004 \| Vol. 164, No. 14
		His debut, Out of Africa (Cry Freetown), a harrowing account of the victims of civil war in his native country, established him as a voice for the continent's too-often forgotten masses.
		One of nine children in a poor family in Freetown, Samura was sent to an English-speaking Christian school, where he began to realize that drama was a good way to get political messages across.
		In early 1999, when rebel forces entered Freetown, he ignored their threats and filmed many of the atrocities they committed — including chopping off hands.
	www.time.com /time/europe/magazine/printout/0,13155,901041011-703509,00.html (680 words)

	Sierra Lione info
		Freetown halvøya har 1000 m høye fjell med tettvokst tropisk regnskog.
		Engelsk (offisielt) Mende i sør, Temne i nord, Krio i Freetown området. (Krio kommer fra slavene som ble satt fri i Freetown.
		Et brutalt portrett om det som skjedde i Sierra Lione's hovedstad Freetown i 1999.
	www.first-step.org /sierra_lione_info.htm (478 words)

	One World 2001 - Film database (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The film is a unique and harrowing account of the innocent victims of a civil war that was largely ignored by the West.
		Featuring Sorious Samura's extraordinary and horrific footage of the battle for Freetown in January 1999, the film challenges the world to witness the growing crisis in Africa.
		He received international attention for his documentary Cry Freetown (1999) and was offered by Channel 4/CNN to return to Africa for further work on the continent’s problems.
	www.oneworld.cz /oneworld/2001/english/detail.php?id=1417 (175 words)

	RealScreen - CNN gains Insight on Sierra Leone
		Cramer was so impressed with both the man and the images he had captured, that he returned to the U.S. determined to embark on a project with Samura.
		The rebel army of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) had already overrun most of the areas surrounding the capital, and they were intent on taking the city.
		Known for executing and maiming civilians everywhere they go - chopping off limbs is their specialty - the RUF entered Freetown with a singular approach: Operation Annihilate Every Living Thing.
	www.realscreen.com /articles/magazine/20000701/29526.html (516 words)

	Sierra Leone News Archives - March 2000 - Sierra Leone Web
		Freetown's Concord Times newspaper reported Wednesday that "at least two deaths were recorded and unspecified number of local residents wounded," but UNICEF said Thursday they had received no reports of casualties among local residents.
		Freetown's The Pool newspaper launched its online edition on Wednesday, joining the Concord Times as the only two of Sierra Leone's many local newspapers to have established an internet presence.
		Freetown Saturday, demanding that the government put an end to illicit diamond mining in the district and allow them to return to their homes, eight months after the Lomé Peace Accord was to have ended Sierra Leone's civil war.
	www.sierra-leone.org /slnews0300.html (14632 words)

	Lazarus Rising: Civil Society and Sierra Leone’s Return from the Grave - IJNL Vol. 7 Iss. 1
		While the demonstration did not directly affect the course of events in the war, it was a major milestone in Sierra Leonean politics, representing the first time that women’s groups, long a fixture on the nation’s social landscape, had taken a political stance.
		The leaders of many of these religious groups had been active in the Abidjan peace talks in 1996 and saw the formation of the new umbrella group as the natural institutional continuation of their cooperation in using religious influence to facilitate a peaceful resolution of the conflict.
		This interim secretariat, under the direction of Yasmin Jusu-Sheriff, a Freetown barrister and longtime advocate for women, established headquarters in Freetown that doubled as the provincial office for the Western Area while provincial offices for the Northern, Southern, and Eastern Provinces were opened, respectively, in Makeni, Bo, and Kenema.
	www.icnl.org /knowledge/ijnl/vol7iss1/art_2.htm (9790 words)

	Budweiser Foyle Film Festival (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		We all know that a diamond is the ultimate symbol of love, yet in Sierra Leone this same symbol of eternal devotion has driven the country to an escalating civil war.
		Freetown is the capital city of Sierra Leone, a country whose relative wealth in the region derives from the sale of diamonds.
		Cry Freetown captures the moment when Rebels and Government forces battle it out in Freetown for control of the country, a control that offers the ultimate glittering prize.
	www.foylefilmfestival.org.cob-web.org:8888 /2000/education/freedom.htm (584 words)

	Sierra Leone facts
		Besides used as a trading base, Sierra Leone was also utilized as a navy base by the British for the anti slavery patrols along the West African coast.
		The remaining coastal areas are dominated by flat terrain with large river deltas and mangrove forests.
		English (official) Mende in the south, Temne in the north, Krio in the Freetown area.
	www.first-step.org /sierra_leone_facts.htm (618 words)

	ZNet \| Activism \| Sorious Samura: Commitment And Voyeurism
		Samura had not gone there to see for himself: he was living in Freetown then, was caught in the fighting, and he bravely took the pictures while hiding.
		I had my criticism of Cry Freetown at the time it came out, but it would be completely churlish of anyone to deny its morbid power, as well as Samuraâs bravery and passion to tell a much neglected, but profoundly important, story.
		Apparently, both the publisher and Samura had read a short review of Cry Freetown I had written, in which I criticized aspects of the documentary.
	www.zmag.org /content/print_article.cfm?itemID=7370&sectionID=2 (1215 words)

	The Liberian Horror Film We Didn't Miss
		The Government has denounced dissident conspirators known to be plotting invasion of the country in a five-star bar in Freetown.
		If they had succeeded in exporting the interviews and video clips taken while they were in the country, their lie-packed documentary was meant to have provided the much needed "evidence" for the gun-running and diamond-smuggling charges being levied against Liberia and its President.
		Just as the prime objective of 'Cry Freetown' was meant to discredit the Nigerian Army and the whole West African Peace Keeping effort.
	www.theperspective.org /channel4.html (2117 words)

	War crimes court opens in Freetown \| The Guardian \| Guardian Unlimited
		UN and government officials joined Geoffrey Robertson QC at the ceremony in the capital, Freetown, but he gave no public indication about the ultimatum he has been given to resign by tomorrow morning or stay and fight an attempt to disqualify him.
		Defence lawyers have demanded that he withdraw because of a book he wrote which depicted the Revolutionary United Front, Sierra Leone's rebel movement, as a bloodthirsty criminal enterprise which committed crimes against humanity during a decade-long civil war.
		Although the court complex is half-finished and trials are not expected to start until May, yesterday's ceremony was supposed to symbolise the speed and efficiency of the Freetown court, a hybrid of UN and Sierra Leonean justice, in contrast to war crimes tribunals for Rwanda and the Balkans.
	www.guardian.co.uk /international/story/0,3604,1166675,00.html (435 words)

	Insight News TV \| Online Store
		If you are planning to show a film to audiences within an organisation or to keep the film in a library you will need an educational licence.
		A brutal portrayal of what happened in Freetown, capital of Sierra Leone in January 1999.
		Sorious Samura shot the film at great risk for his own life, keenly aware of the fact that the strong images he recorded were the only thing that could shake the world from its indifference to the plight of his countrymen, women and children.
	www.insightnewstv.com /store (299 words)

	Sierra Leone Travel Tips - Sierra Leone Travel Guide - VirtualTourist.com
		Despite a July 1999 peace agreement between the government and rebel forces, control of much of the country is still being contested by armed combatants.
		In May 2000, over 20 protesters and an unknown number of rebel guards were killed in an exchange of gunfire in Freetown near the home of the rebel leader.
		The joy as I and a few colleagues went to a blind school in Freetown and were sung Christmas carols by the boys and girls there.
	www.virtualtourist.com /travel/Africa/Sierra_Leone/General_Tips-Sierra_Leone-BR-1.html (820 words)

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