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Aminata Conteh-Biger

My name is Aminata Conteh-Biger and I was born in Freetown, Sierra Leone in West Africa. My country Sierra Leone endured 12 years of civil war and it was in January, 1999 during this wartime, when I was kidnaped by Revolutionary United Front (RUF) and was used as a sex slave and a human shield for several months. I was 18 years old. She now runs her charity in Australia where she lives with her husband and two children.