Liberia’s displaced hope election will deliver ticket home

LIBERIAN refugee Yatta Holmes bears a scar along her left eye where rebels slashed her face with a machete during an attack on her town several years ago.

The 16-year-old is one of the millions uprooted from their homes by a vicious 14-year civil war that ended in 2003 and who hopes the peace will be sealed by government elections today.

The presidential and legislative elections will be the first vote since the war ended and a caretaker national-unity government took over to arrange the ballot. Some 15,000 UN peacekeepers will be on hand to maintain calm.