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June 10, 2008

In Africa, Justice for 'Bush Wives'

by Jina Moore, Christian Science Monitor, Sierra Leone - Fatmata Jalloh was just a kid selling pancakes on a rural road in Sierra Leone when a rebel soldier snatched her and made her his wife. "I was a child. I didn't know anything about love at that time ... but he said, 'If you don't take me [as your husband], I'll kill you,' " she remembers.

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