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By MARIATU KAMARA

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The Bite of the Mango

Overview

Eleven-year-old Mariatu lives in a small village in Sierra Leone. There are growing reports of rebels attacking villagers nearby but, for over a year, the villagers avoid attack by hiding in the bush.

One night, Mariatu dreams of palm oil—a sign that blood will be spilled the next day. Sure enough, the following day, Mariatu is captured by rebel soldiers. She prays for death but instead has her hands cut from her body by child soldiers almost as young as her.

Mariatu wakes up on the brink of death but manages to make her way to the hospital. On the way, she meets up with her cousins, Ibrahim and Mohamed, and learns that they too have lost their hands.

At the hospital, Mariatu discovers that she is pregnant. At first, she cannot understand how this has happened but once her aunt talks to her about sex and men, she realizes how she became pregnant.

A month before the rebel attack, Mariatu was raped by Salieu, a family friend, and now she is carrying his child. This knowledge horrifies her and she attempts to take her own life. Mariatu’s aunt stops her, but Mariatu is left depressed and desperate. 

Shortly after, Mariatu learns that her cousin Adamsay survived the attack but also lost her hands to the rebels. Other rel

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Template:Infobox personMariatu Kamara (born 25 May in Yonkro, Sierra Leone) is a UNICEF Special Representative, author and survivor of the civil war in Sierra Leone.

Early life[]

Mariautu Kamara was born and raised in the small village of Magborou in the year in the West African country of Sierra Leone.^[1] Her mother, Aminatu, was the second wife of her father, the first being Sampa; she was thus raised in a polygamous te:Sfn At a very young age, she was sent to live with her father's sister, Marie and her husband, te:Sfn

Experiences during the war[]

As a year-old child during the civil war in Sierra Leone, Kamara was raped by a male family friend named Salieu; Salieu, whom she was under pressure to marry when she reached the age of 16, was a trusted friend of her aunt Marie.^[1] Shortly after the rape, the village was invaded by Revolutionary United Front rebels, who cut off both of her hands.^[1] During the attacks she witnessed the murder of many members of her own family and friends, as well as her rapist Salieu, but she managed to escape.^[1] She made her way to the Connaught Hospital in Freetown (along the way she was helped by several strangers),Template:Sfn where surgery was performed on her arms to p