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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451120703321

Autore

Olson Leanne <1963->

Titolo

A cruel paradise [[electronic resource] ] : journals of an international relief worker / / Leanne Olson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, : Insomniac Press, c1999

ISBN

1-280-91097-6

9786610910977

1-4593-0950-2

1-897414-89-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (253 p.)

Disciplina

361.77

363.34/988/092 21

Soggetti

Nurses - Canada

War relief

International relief

Nurses

War

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Table of Contents; Introduction; The Beginning; Background; Liberia; Bosnia; Liverpool; Burundi; Zaire; Canada; MERLIN; The Great Lakes, Again...; Angola; Back to Liberia; Albania; Liberia, Full Circle; Not Quite the End; Glossary of Terms

Sommario/riassunto

These are the journals of Leanne Olson, a Canadian nurse who for four years worked in war zones around the world, delivering medicine in Bosnia, supporting rural hospitals in Africa, providing aid to people in need. She was one of the first foreigners on the scene of the Mokoto massacre in Zaire, where more than a hundred people were killed by machete-wielding Hutus. She spent one Christmas pinned down by Serbian heavy artillery with a troop of Bangladeshi UN peacekeepers. She immunized thousands of children in rural Liberia. And she has witnessed the quick progress of ethnic cleansing, watchi