Sierra Leone Revolutionary United Front
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Child Soldiers
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Author : Myriam S. Denov
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2010-03-25
Child Soldiers written by Myriam S. Denov and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-25 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Traces the experiences of child soldiers in Sierra Leone during and after war and examines the implications of their participation.
Sierra Leone Revolutionary United Front
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Author : Al J. Venter
language : en
Publisher: History of Terror
Release Date : 2018
Sierra Leone Revolutionary United Front written by Al J. Venter and has been published by History of Terror this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with History categories.
Sierra Leone's eleven-year guerrilla war - that left 200,000 people dead - was brief, bloody and mindlessly brutal. It was also the second African war in which mercenaries were hired to counter some of the worst atrocities that Africa had on offer. By the time it ended in 2002, several groups of mercenaries - including an air wing equipped with a pair of ageing Mi-24 helicopter gunships and backed by the British Army and the Royal Navy - played significant roles in quelling the bush rebellion. It was an idiosyncratic war, which started with the Foday Sankoh's Revolutionary United Front (RUF) chanting the slogan 'No more slaves, no more masters, power and wealth to the people' and ended with a series of battles for control for Sierra Leone's diamond mines in the interior. By then the Liberian tyrant Charles Taylor and Libya's Muammar Gadaffi were the prime movers for the rebel cause, one of the reasons why anyone deemed to be the enemy - doctors, journalists, civil servants, missionaries, nuns and teachers - was slaughtered. The war gradually deteriorated into some of the most barbaric violence seen in any African struggle and which sometimes included cannibalism, with an army of 11,000 child soldiers - some as young as nine or ten - high on drugs rounding up entire neighbourhoods to machine-gun them en masse or burn them alive in their homes. Amputations of limbs of women, the very young and the very old were commonplace.
A Dirty War In West Africa
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Author : Lansana Gberie
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2005-12
A Dirty War In West Africa written by Lansana Gberie and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-12 with History categories.
Since 1991, this West African nation has been brought to its knees by a series of coups, violent conflicts, and finally, outright war. The war has ended today, but it is clear that things are hardly settled. Focusing on the group spearheading the violence, the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), journalist Lansana Gberie exposes the corruption and appalling use of rape and mutilation as tactics to overthrow the former government. Gberie looks closely at the rise of the RUF and its ruthless leader, Foday Sankoh, as he seeks to understand the personalities and parties involved in the war.
Sierra Leone
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Author : Al J. Venter
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Sierra Leone written by Al J. Venter and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with HISTORY categories.
The Revolutionary United Front Ruf And Child Soldiers During Sierra Leone S Civil War Use Of Drugged Soldiers To Commit Horrific Atrocities During Guerilla War Involvement Of Libya And Gadhafi
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Author : U. S. Military
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-03-18
The Revolutionary United Front Ruf And Child Soldiers During Sierra Leone S Civil War Use Of Drugged Soldiers To Commit Horrific Atrocities During Guerilla War Involvement Of Libya And Gadhafi written by U. S. Military and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-18 with categories.
On March 23, 1991 a rebel group in eastern Sierra Leone known as the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) ignited a civil war in that country that would last over ten years and ultimately result in the death of over 50,000 civilians. Their weapons of choice were child soldiers. Poorly trained, immature and drugged, child soldiers would commit unimaginably horrific atrocities on a grand scale. The RUF saw children as a free, easy to manipulate, abundant, and when drugged, aggressively inhumane force that would conduct fighting for the side that gave them a sense of belonging and home. The RUF's means to accomplish its objectives sunk to new levels when its child soldiers turned to limb amputations, torture, rape, and executions. Sierra Leone's civil war is an interesting case study of how a rebel group could use a sizeable population of a nation's children to commit mass atrocities for the stated purpose of revolutionary change. The RUF's use of child soldiers was the result of failures in governance, extraordinary poverty, and opportunistic and apathetic leadership that synergized to create uniquely horrific conditions that led to this outcome.CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION * Overview * Research Question * History up to Sierra Leone's civil war * Significance of the Study * Master of Military Art and Science Outline * CHAPTER 2 LITERATURE REVIEW * Existing Literature and Schools of Thought * Conclusion * CHAPTER 3 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY * Type of Research * Process to Answer Secondary Questions * Repeatability of the Study * Weaknesses of a Case Study.. Limitations Definitions * CHAPTER 4 ANALYSIS * State Security * Law and Order * Education * Child Soldiers Affected the Nature of fighting during the civil war * The International Community Shares Responsibility for the Use of Child Soldiers throughout the civil war * Summary * CHAPTER 5 CONCLUSION * Recommendations to Prevent the Use of Child Soldiers * Responsibility to Protect * Deterrence * Further Research on the TopicSierra Leone's civil war (1991 to 2003) stands out from other conflicts for several reasons. The extensive use of child soldiers by the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) augmented the brutality of the conflict and contributed to the severity of atrocities. Child abductions, limb amputations, cannibalism, forced sexual slavery, rape, torture, and executions were some of the major crimes leveraged against all sides of the conflict. An entire generation of Sierra Leonean children lost their innocence through both their roles as victims and perpetrators. The RUF were the first to use child soldiers and the greatest violators of this crime throughout the civil war. Their objective was to invade Sierra Leone, launch a guerilla war, and usurp authority from the Sierra Leonean government for political power, financial, and natural resources.
Behind Npfl And Ruf Rebel Lines
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Author : Terrence Sesay
language : en
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
Release Date : 2014-12-15
Behind Npfl And Ruf Rebel Lines written by Terrence Sesay and has been published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The novel Behind NPFL and RUF Rebel Lines is a chronicle of my personal experiences during my odyssey in search of security during the wars in Liberia and Sierra Leone from 1990 to July 1992. My main characters are former rebel leaders Charles Taylor of the National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NFPL), and Foday Sankoh of the Sierra Leonean rebel group Revolutionary United Front (RUF). Some of these experiences were so traumatic that I felt obliged to pen them for the world. I also contribute to the debate about the war in Sierra Leone, which has become an issue for international jurisdiction. This book provides an historical account of the Liberian conflict and an eyewitness account of the initial stage of the RUF rebel war. I also provide background for the ascendancy to power of Africa’s first elected female president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, and her reign from 2006 to 2013.
Origins Of The Civil War In Sierra Leone
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Author : Florian Seidl
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2005-05-16
Origins Of The Civil War In Sierra Leone written by Florian Seidl and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-05-16 with History categories.
Essay from the year 2004 in the subject African Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,3 (=75%), University of Cape Town (Department of History / Faculty of Humanities), course: Africa: colonial and post-colonial encounters, language: English, abstract: This work is an essay written for an undergraduate course in African history at the University of Cape Town (South Africa), and deals with the social origins of the guerilla war in Sierra Leone.
Between Democracy And Terror
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Author : Ibrahim Abdullah
language : en
Publisher: Unisa Press
Release Date : 2004
Between Democracy And Terror written by Ibrahim Abdullah and has been published by Unisa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
This is the most authoritative study of the Sierra Leone civil war to emanate from Africa, or indeed any publications' programme on Africa. It explores the genesis of the crisis, the contradictory roles of different internal and external actors, civil society and the media; the regional intervention force and the demise of the second republic. It analyses the numerous peace initiatives designed to end a war, which continued nonetheless to defy and outlast them; and asks why the war became so prolonged. The study articulates how internal actors trod the multiple and conflicting pathways to power. It considers how non-conventional actors were able to inaugurate and sustain an insurgency that called forth the largest concentration of UN peacekeepers the world has ever seen.
Out Of War
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Author : Mariane C. Ferme
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2018-08-10
Out Of War written by Mariane C. Ferme and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-10 with Social Science categories.
Out of War draws on Mariane C. Ferme’s three decades of ethnographic engagements to examine the physical and psychological aftereffects of the harms of Sierra Leone's civil war. Ferme analyzes the relationship between violence, trauma, and the political imagination, focusing on “war times”—the different qualities of temporality arising from war. She considers the persistence of precolonial and colonial figures of sovereignty re-elaborated in the context of war, and the circulation of rumors and neologisms that freeze in time collective anxieties linked to particular phases of the conflict (or “chronotopes”). Beyond the expected traumas of war, Ferme explores the breaks in the intergenerational transmission of farming and hunting techniques, and the lethal effects of remembering experienced traumas and forgetting local knowledge. In the context of massive population displacements and humanitarian interventions, this ethnography traces strategies of survival and material dwelling, and the juridical creation of new figures of victimhood, where colonial and postcolonial legacies are reinscribed in neoliberal projects of decentralization and individuation.
Representations Of Violence
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Author : Russ Feingold
language : en
Publisher: Twenty-First Century African Youth Movement, Inc.
Release Date : 2005
Representations Of Violence written by Russ Feingold and has been published by Twenty-First Century African Youth Movement, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Art categories.
This unprecedented exhibition of viscerally potent art focuses on how Sierra Leonean Artists have documented the atrocities of war and how these representations of violence spur conscious action.