Winner
Robin Hammond
Freelance
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"CONDEMNED - Mental health in African countries in crisis"
Former child soldier Mamie Denis, 33, in the informal settlement known as Trench Town in Liberia's capital Monrovia "We use to kill people who we were not suppose to kill and did a lot of wicked things which is a bad experience for me... In the war when we were fighting, whenever we go and attack, we use to get a lot of things to enjoy ourselves. But since the war is over, we are just suffering. We are not doing anything. Therefore, we have to go on the street." Thousands of Liberia's children were conscripted to fight in the country's bloody civil wars between 1989 and 2003. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is rife in these former child soldier ghettos. Time has not healed the deep psychological scars that the violence has left. Photo Robin Hammond/Panos. Liberia, January/February 2013.
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