Revolutionary United Front
The Revolutionary United Front (R.U.F.) was a guerrilla warfare group created in 1991 in Sierra Leone with the mission to overthrow the African government. They were lead by Foday Saybana Sankoh, who was a student activists that spent time in Libya in exile. While there he became philosophically influenced by Muammar al-Qaddafi. R.U.F. was able to fund itself with the country's diamond resources to afford things such as weapons, ammunition, and food. For 11 years they terrorized people, claiming over 50,000 lives and displacing more than 2 million people around Africa. They were famous for recruiting child soldiers, raping, and dismembering people but not killing them. In 2002 the United Nations shut down R.U.F. by arresting the leaders and putting them in jail to restore peace in Sierra Leone. |
| This is a group of child soldiers from Sierra Leone. They are between ages 12-16 in this photo. |
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Did putting the R.U.F.'s leader in jail stop the warfare group?
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ReplyDeleteWho is Muammar Al-qaddafi and why was Foday influenced by him?
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