The result has been tension between Guineans and refugees, the latter accused of harboring the attackers. Over 1,000 Guineans from the towns of Formoreya and Daraghabe have already fled their homes, angrily burning down refugees camps located there. The strategy encompasses staging internal coups as externally backed dissidents stepped up their terror. Socioeconomic chasms heightened by the war then present the illusion that those that caused economic decay hold the keys to progress. Leaders a la Sankoh or Taylor will emerge for a brutal power contest that peace treaties and talks will find difficult to end.
Society sinks into irredeemable depth of tragedy and poverty.
The sadness is that this Gospel of doom is being fulfilled. Population movement towards economically depressed urban areas, as peasants are uprooted from the land and subjected to the humiliation, degradation, and uncertainty to relief aid, has begun. Looting of relief organizations, the trademark of Taylor's rebels, is spreading. Soon, food production will suffer, as relief food, where available, flood rural areas once self-sufficient and feeding urban centers. Guinea, one of the Africa's poorest countries, cannot possibly sustain a prolonged hit and run war with an invisible enemy.