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May 14, 1999 --- Freetown, Sierra Leone A young man waits for medical attention after rebels from the Revolutionary United Front used a knife to mark both his chest and back with the initials RUF. The rebels then attempted to cut off his ear. In a similar attack, the rebels hacked the neck of the woman sitting in the background with a machete leaving her for dead. Previous || Beginning Focus on Human Rights