1999.

I don't know.

No.

Yes, sir.

Yes, it even took nearly up to one year.

Well, I cannot remember the day now.

Yes, it is a military barracks.

It is in Freetown at the Western Area.

We were at a place where we had gone to play football at a football training at 7th Battalion, Freetown. When I saw him, then I went to him and I greeted him. When I greeted him then I told my guys with whom I had gone there and I ...

Yes.

He was a rebel leader.

Yes.

I said from the AFRC time I was at Fourah Bay Road. We met him with his broken - with his car that had broken down. He asked us the civilians to push his car. We pushed his car right up to Cline Town, then the car got started. While we ...

Yes, sir.

Yes, sir.

Yes, sir.

Yes, sir. Good morning, sir.

Yes, sir.

Yes, I knew him a little. At one time I was coming from where I sell wares at Fourah Bay Road and arrived at - I arrived by Taylor Street. He had a car which had broken down. We met him there. He asked us to push his car for it ...

Of January. That January 6th, the 19th, on a Thursday. On Friday 28th I went to Connaught Hospital.

Yes, the 19th.

Yes. The only person who told - the commando who amputated my arm, after he had amputated my arm he told me to go to President Kabbah because we had voted for him, let him give me a false arm. That was the only person who spoke to me. No other ...

The house was owned by my dad. That was where we stayed with our other family members. It had four rooms and a parlour, but it was a house made of board. That was where we lived.

What I mean, he's a fairly old man. He's a fairly old man. What we say, he's an old man, fairly old man. He's not a young man.

No, no. The one at Saroula and the one at the base by Kissy Mental Home, they were not the same people. The last one, I had never known him. He's an ageable person, he has bald head, but the one who was at Saroula was a young man.

Yes. Some of them said their arms were amputated in Freetown. They would call the street where they were at that time. At that time it was only the capital city and there were other people from the provinces, different areas, so that was how they were giving the reports.

No, so many people whose arms had been amputated, I met some there, some met us there. Throughout that week they were taking them there.

So the ECOMOG met me there with their armoured car. They put me in, took me to Ferry Junction. After Ferry Junction they took me to Connaught Hospital. I was there at Connaught Hospital for 26 days, but when we went there there were no medicines there.

And the Pa told him that they had gone out. So Rambo told Captain Blood that, "Have you seen what this man did to these people?" He said, "I was going to punish him." He said, "That was not why he came." Then he took out 100,000, that is ...

Rambo met us there along with the people he had come with. When he met us there, the commando and the others, all of them saluted him. After they had saluted him Rambo asked the commando, he said, "What are you doing here?" He said, "Why are you killing these ...

Yes, sir. He went and met us. When he met us, where they had killed the people and where they had amputated my arms --

They were more than 40.

So all of them came and parked the vehicles in which they had come.

Bus stop. It was an old bus stop closer to Kissy Mental Home, in that area.

Well, I think he was their leader. He was one of their leaders. When he came, he came along with a lot of people. We had a street there around our area there which we called --

Yes, sir. It was as a result of the cutting that that man did, that was why I don't have a complete arm.

The youngest of the seven rebels told the commander that, "Look at Rambo coming." After he had told him he did not amputate the man's arm again. Rambo was with many other people.

Yes, sir. He told the other man to put his arm down. As he put his arm, one of the seven rebels he told him that Rambo is coming.

I said the boy who he commanded to come and amputate me was not even 13 years. If he was 13, he was not up to 14 years. He was the youngest of them.

Yes, sir.

Yes, sir. I had no other problem in my life.

This was the first one, the left that they first amputated. The next one was the right arm. They took it again and put it on the log. That one he only hit it once. This too was hanging on the flesh just as the left one, but he had ...

Yes, sir. After that they took this other arm and put it on the same log.

When he had hit it twice the bone was cut off, but then the arm was still hanging on a small flesh.

It was not cut off completely, but it was just hanging now on a small flesh, small lump of flesh.

After they had put my arm on the log he took the axe. He hit the left arm twice.

The other rebels held us and put our arms on the log where our arms were to be amputated.

That is the commando took the axe and he came. He put my arm. When they put my arm he came and hit my left arm twice.

Yes, sir. At that time the commando told one of the rebels to go and untie us. This rebel whom he had told to untie me, he was the youngest of the rebels. He was not even 13 years old. He asked him to go and amputate my arm. Then ...

Yes, sir. They came and got us forcefully, put us on the ground and tied all of us up. They beat some people even, but I was not beaten. They tied all of us up.