Liberia, Oct. 22 -- Summary:

By Anthony Stephens, senior justice correspondent with New Narratives

JOHN F. KENNEDY HOSPITAL, Monrovia- For 36 years, Rufus Kartee has lived with a bullet wound he says he suffered at the hands of troops of the Armed Forces of Liberia at St. Peter's Lutheran Church in 1990, where one of Liberia's deadliest wartime massacres took place. Now 65, he walks with a crutch, struggles to find shelter and sometimes begs for food. He lives with chronic pain and poverty long after the country's civil wars ended.

On a recent afternoon here at the country's largest hospital, Kartee holds his medical records and appointment card. A bullet struck his left hip during the massacre, he says, damaging the bone and leaving h...