Photo journal: Sierre Leone amputee

The rebels said I should get another hand from [President Ahmad Tejan] Kabbah. They said he had lots of spare hands.

I was in agony - I thought I would die. I went to hospital but all the doctors had run away.

The city was full of corpses.

My left hand was hanging by the skin and started to rot.

After a week, I saw a doctor, who treated my wounds.