Seeking Hidden Accounts of Atrocity

From the New York Times, a piece on Liberia's Truth and Reconciliation process in the United States:

After three years spent collecting narratives from survivors of Liberia's civil wars, Ms. Kamara-Umunna has instincts. She believed she had spotted a former child soldier, vanished almost seamlessly into a community 4,500 miles from home. If she had antennas, they would have trembled.

Ms. Kamara-Umunna, too, blends easily into this neighborhood, among thousands of Liberian refugees in northeast Staten Island. But she has come to New York on a mission.

In Liberia, she specializes in persuading former child soldiers — men with every reason to keep silent — to give oral histories, sometimes confessing acts of bewildering violence on her radio program there.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/31/nyregion/31reconcile.html

Matt