Since the seventies and the publication of James Boyd White's The Legal Imagination, the interdisciplinary study of literature and law has come to be widely featured in law school curricula around the globe and has fostered an interesting body of academic scholarship. Several critics, differing widely on countless other points, converge in full agreement on this one great benefit. ...again despite their divergent objectives, most law and literature proponents also concur that an injection of literary humanism into the legal profession acts essentially as a curative form of contumacy against the law's self-propagating tyranny over persons historically exiled to the margins of society. Ultimately, I will show how Forna's literature succeeds as a dramatic, humanized counterpart to the objective legal discourse of international humanitarian law, emphasizing both the implications of civil war for a civilian population and revealing some of the weaknesses of those humanitarian efforts that have sought to confront them. Since the beginning of the twentieth century, there has been a marked increase in civilian casualties during wartime. ...the rebels waged war against the civilian population through the perpetration of human rights abuses.