there be many negative comment about the fact of this film . i watch it and i decide that what have transpire in sierra leone be almost typical the every wealthy former colony . the price of independence for many country in what we mockingly call the third world have be corruption and tyranny . these nation may have their independence and but the colonial power organisation have retain all of the right to the most valuable property which they initially steal from the people . ahmad tejan kabbah position of power reminds me somewhat of general pinoche in chile and the shah in iran and marcos in the phillipines and saddam hussein a leader keep in power to serve foreign business interest . the history of the last 200 year have tell u that when poverty reach a certain level and worker revolution occur use marxist ideology to fuel the uprising . in the 80 these movement and such a the sardinistas and where label a communist and systematically revile and suppress by the free market economy . tyrant where kept in power to protect foreign business from nationalisation . now in the face of uprising and all that can be agree on be to hold election . if the revolutionary party win the election and the international community will simply not recognise the government and label them a terrorist organisation ( eg hamas ) . free election be pointless exercise . i point to the 1953 iranian coup détat to illustrate my point . here and a democratically elected government be remove from power by a u or uk back coup when they reveal plan to nationalise the iranian oil company ( good know a bp ) . the international community then endorse a dictatorship which be in turn crush in 1979 by a shia muslim revolution . this be a very familiar old story tell in africa instead of south america or the middle east .