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["Christian B. Schäffler" <APD_Info_Schweiz@compuserve.com>]

December 31, 1998
Adventist Press Service (APD)
Christian B. Schaeffler, Editor-in-chief
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ADRA Workers Evacuate Hospital and Rehabilitation Camp in 
Sierra Leone
[98/39/05]

Freetown, Sierra Leone [APD/ADRA] Aid workers from the 
Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) evacuated a 
hospital and rehabilitation camp for war amputees in the town 
of Waterloo amid a rebel advance on West African 
intervention troops defending the government, according to 
recent press reports.  The war among the government and 
members of Sierra Leone's ousted military junta and its rebel 
allies has been on-going for 10 months, according to a news 
report by the Associated Press.  The press report indicated 
that thousands of people have been killed, raped and maimed 
by the rebels in a sweeping revenge campaign against the 
government.  The hospital and rehabilitation camp where the 
aid workers were housed is 20 miles east of Freetown.