29:56 – 30:34

Sol What’s up? This is Rascalz crew, Figure4, reporting live and direct from Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa with MuchMusic and War Child.
Misfit All y’all out there listening check this out. UN voted Canada the number one place to live in the world right now and Sierra Leone is the last. My man Red’s going to tell y’all why. For real.
Red 1 One of the reasons why they’re voted one of the worst places to live in the world is because of the war that’s been going on here since 1991. So we came to Sierra Leone to check it out, the place. See what’s been going on and the effects the war has been havin’ on these people, you know what I’m sayin’? Deep behind the lines of Mama Afrika. Check it out.

31:00 – 31:24

Red 1 Alright, I’m gonna check this out. What’s up man? Respect, man.
Local musician Music is the universal language, and if it’s good, it doesn’t matter where you from, or what colour you are, people appreciate it. Obviously, I do get influenced by what’s happening in my country. Sierra Leone is my country and if people are not happy here then I’m not happy. You see what I’m sayin’?

32:37 – 33:34 (no video)

Man at amputee camp You know the war; the diamonds brought all these things, the diamonds, because if the rebels hadn’t captured the mining areas, I don’t think they would have any money. But with these diamonds, that’s all we’re asking for is the world to stop buying diamonds from Sierra Leone here. Generally, the rich as we call them tycoons, they use our minerals to get arms and ammunitions. They are using my minerals to disturb me instead of using the mineral to rebuild the country. They are using the minerals to destroy the land itself. And I cannot say that this is done by someone else, it is done by Sierra Leoneans. All these things are done by our brothers and sisters.
Red 1 But I also gotta say, it’s everybody around the world who has a diamond in their wedding ring, everybody around the world who’s wearing the diamonds and playing the bling bling, anywhere in the world. You know what I mean? Know if you’re wearing diamonds the effect, this is the effect that you could be contributing to if you’re buying and wearing diamonds, you know what I’m sayin’?

34:49 – 35:10

Sol How do you feel about us coming into your camp?
Camp Director Your coming here will establish assistance for us. And that will open the relationship between Sierra Leone and Canada, and we’ve already started that. And we’ve alredy told you that the Canadian government is really thinking of us.

35:42 – 37:15

Denise What are you getting a sense of here Red?
Red 1 Um, to tell you the truth I really don’t like it, you know what I mean? It’s like; it just makes me feel sad and depressed. It makes me feel like, I don’t know. I can’t even put it into words really. I wouldn’t like to try to be honest, all I know is that it makes things that go on back home kind irrelevant, you know what I mean? They kinda… makes…
Misfit All of this, a whole lot of everything just seems a lot less important, um, thinking as I stand here and thinking about what goes on back at home. I know I’ll go back and a lot of arguments that I would have with people just I wouldn’t have anymore and that type of thing.
Red 1 The people here, they’re really, you know what I’m saying, they still have a cheerful way about them, they have no hate towards who did this to them. Like I can see how…
Misfit They let it go. They let it go.
Red 1 And these people are willing to be around and work back, and work with the people who cut their limbs off, and killed their father and killed their mother, and they’re willing to like… and think of a hopeful future and stuff like that, you know what I mean? So I could easily change places with one of these kids, you know what I’m saying? It could have been one of them in Canada and me here, you know what I’m sayin’? Like all I see is just me. Me everywhere, so… I can’t put it into words, you know what I mean?