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Author Olson, Leanne, 1963- author.

Title A cruel paradise : journals of an international relief worker / Leanne Olson
Published Toronto : Insomniac Press, ©1999

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Description 1 online resource (252 pages)
Contents 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
Summary 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, watching one village after another wiped off the face of the earth
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Subject Olson, Leanne, 1963- -- Diaries
SUBJECT Olson, Leanne, 1963- fast
Subject Médecins sans frontières (Association)
SUBJECT Médecins sans frontières (Association)
Médecins sans frontières (Association) fast
Subject Nurses -- Canada -- Diaries
War relief.
International relief.
Nurses -- Personal narratives
War -- Personal narratives
Nurses.
Women nurses.
War.
Nurses
Relief Work
Armed Conflicts
nurses.
wars.
armed conflicts.
Women nurses
International relief
Nurses
War
War relief
Canada
Genre/Form Electronic books
e-books.
autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Diaries
Personal narratives
Personal narratives.
Autobiographies.
Livres numériques.
Récits personnels.
Autobiographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781897414897
1897414897