Sierra Leone’s “family talk” heals scars of war
2008 July 7
Jina Moore of The Christian Science Monitor looks at John Caulker, a human rights activist in Sierra Leone dedicated to encouraging victims and perpetrators from the country’s decade-long civil war to share their stories. His devotion to truth and reconciliation shows most clearly in his own forgiveness of the aunts that drove his mother out of their home during the conflict, to her death: “It is a process. You accept, and you continually accept, even when you think it’s finished.”
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