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the war still impacts Salone

These first 2 pics are of the same car- part of a graveyard in Kono (or possibly Tonkolili)- over in the East of the country. apparently these cars have been here for 10-15 years-long enough for fast growing trees to grow up through them.
what's really scary is the amount of ambushed cars you still see the skeletons of on the roads in the east- admittedly everything that could be useful has been removed, but it's still a scary reminder of a reality that only 6 years ago was life in Salone.

Some of the buildings around were probably beautiful before the war, but are now just shells of their previous states-this one seems less burnt out than many others, but has still lost everything except the bricks it's built of.
Another building that was once elegant but was destroyed by the rebels in their systematic destruction of towns and villages as they left them.
Hidden in the long grass are many more skeletons of cars that were ambushed during the war. I went for a wander round while there was an attempt made to fix our car while we were travelling- there were more ex-cars than I could easily count, plus sometimes not being able to work out where one car stopped and another began- a very sad and stricking scene.

Labels: ambush, burnt out buildings, car, war

posted by Nenya @ 2:45 pm