Horror in Monrovia: I cried then and I cry now

AP Chief of African News Michelle Faul covered both sides of Liberia’s civil war and the war in Sierra Leone from 1990 to 1994, when she was West Africa Correspondent. Here is her story.

The chopped-off fingers clinging to the railing of a river bridge. The 12-year-old boy who drew a picture of a bloody serrated knife he had used to kill, trying to exorcise ghosts of those he had murdered.