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| Subject: Sickening rights violations: Clashes erupt as neighbourhood of 75,000 people quarantined to contain Ebola in Liberia Thu Aug 21, 2014 12:04 am | |
| Liberia's halting efforts to contain the Ebola outbreak spreading across parts of West Africa quickly turned violent on Wednesday when angry young men hurled rocks and stormed barbed-wire barricades, trying to break out of a neighbourhood that had been cordoned off by the government.
Soldiers repelled the surging crowd with live rounds, driving hundreds of young men back into the neighbourhood, a slum of tens of thousands in Monrovia known as West Point.
One teenager in the crowd, Shakie Kamara, 15, lay on the ground near the barricade, his right leg apparently wounded by a bullet from the melee. "Help me," pleaded Kamara, who was barefoot and wore a green Philadelphia Eagles T-shirt.
http://www.smh.com.au/world/clashes-erupt-as-neighbourhood-of-75000-people-quarantined-to-contain-ebola-in-liberia-20140821-106hs7.html |
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