a long way gone

  • rebel attack

    Rebels attacked the mining areas near Ishmael home and caused school to be canceled
  • civilians flee attacking rebels

    people flee the mining town and ismaels home causing them to move to a freinds home in a neighboring town. Ishmael sees many dead and injured people during this time
  • Rebel capture

    Ishmeal and his friends are captured by a small group of rebel soldiers but manage to escape enslavement when the soldiers are distracted by distant gunfire
  • new village

    Ismeals group takes refuge in a village where some of Gibrilla's (ishmeals friend) lives and while there they keep watch for rebel soldiers and work in the towns farm.
  • new villige attacked

    The village ismael was staying in is attacked while many people are at masque and the group is seperated, ismael and Kaloko find each other in the morning and stay with a friendly group they knew for 2 weeks.
  • Ismael leaves kaloko

    Ismael decides to head his own seperate way and leaves Kaloko with the group they were staying with
  • Ismael lost a forest

    Ismael spends around a month lost in a forest by himself before running into another group of boys who he starts traviling with
  • RUF taking control atempt

    The RUF holds much of the countryside and are on the doorstep of Freetown. To control the situation, the NPRC hires several hundred mercenaries from private firms. Within a mounth, they have driven the RUF fighters back to enclaves along Sierra Leone's border.
  • RUF launch another attack

    RUF launch another attack
    The RUF launches another attempt to overthrow the government. fighting reaches parts of freetown again, leaving thousands dead and wounded. ECOMOG forces drive back the RUF attack several weeks later.
  • Civil war over

    President Kabbah declares the civil war officialy over