Civil War in Sierra Leone Leaves Many Victims Scarred for Life 
COLLEEN MCEDWARDS, WORLD NEWS: Sierra Leone's government is debating what to do with captured rebel leader Foday Sankoh. He was granted amnesty last year under a peace deal that ended more than eight years of civil war. But now his followers hold more than 300 United Nations peacekeepers, and many people in Sierra Leone say they want Sankoh punished. CNN's Ben Wedeman reports.</s>BEN WEDEMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): If time heals most wounds, some wounds are beyond the reach of time. Lansana Sese (ph) lives in Freetown in a camp for amputees and war wounded, victims of what the rebels simply called "cuttings," mass amputations of noncombatants intended to terrorize civilians. There was no mercy.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I asked them to leave one hand. They said, no, we're going to chop both hands.</s>WEDEMAN: He ran after the rebels, begging them to shoot him. Without my hands, he said, I might as well be dead. But the rebels refused. Next to the camp is a workshop making artificial limbs, but there is nothing here that can ease the searing memory of the nightmares.</s>KOMBAH TESSINA, HANDICAP INTERNATIONAL: The perpetrators of these actions were asking people, "Do you want a long sleeve or a short sleeve?" By this, they mean, do you want your hands cut right off here, or right down here?</s>WEDEMAN: Age didn't matter. Momi Kroma (ph) was only 3 months old when rebels attacked her family's house. They chopped off both her father's hands, and then cut off her left arm. Her father bled to death in front of her. Her mother, Amanita (ph), who was away from home during the attack, doesn't know what happened to her other three children. Rebels ordered Hassan Bah (ph) to hold down his son's hand while they hacked off his arm. And then it was Hassan's turn. They took one of his daughters back to the bush, where she became a sex slave for the rebels. Then they killed his baby son.</s>HASSAN BAH: And my child, the other one, the suckling one, they took him and drowned him in the toilet.</s>WEDEMAN: So many lives, so randomly shattered. Ben Wedeman, CNN, Freetown.