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On the Conflict in Sierra Leone (Clip 5 of 5)

To explain the political context of the film Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars, Idrissa Conte from the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) talks about the violence on civilians that resulted from the conflict in Sierra Leone. As many as 75,000 people were killed by 1999 in Sierra Leone during its Civil War.