"""Mariatu, Sierra Leone, 2001: 'Sometimes I can't sleep at all for several days. I think about what happened to me and I cry. I was 13. I didn't know anything about the war. I was coming from the farm trying to go to our house when we were attacked. I begged them for a long time not to cut my hands, I said """"kill me, rather than cut my hands."""" I came to live in a camp with other amputees. There are 260 amputees here. There are children of two years, three years, five years, six years. There are young people and old people.'"""
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