Saturday, February 6, 2016

Journal 4 By Tiff - Mercenary Troops

The RUF captured towns on the Liberian border, killing and torturing numerous citizens. The
President is ousted in 1992, setting up a cycle of military coups for the next five years Despite the accord, RUF forces continued their attacks and seemingly random acts of violence against government and civilian targets. The UN sought disarmament, but response on both sides was slow. Eventually, Great Britain intervened, sending in troops to capture RUF forces and restore full power .


Sierra Leone has been  in a civil war since it began in March 1991, the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) attempted to overthrow successive governments. On 22 October 1999, the Security Council established United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone [UNAMSIL] to cooperate with the Government and the other parties in implementing the Lome Peace Agreement  The internal conflict involved multiple ethnic groups and resulted in an estimated 15,000 deaths from 1991 through 1996. By early 1999 estimates of the number of dead in the rebel war ranged upward from 50,000. At different times estimates of the number of displaced people were as high as 2.5 million - more than half of the entire population. As many as half a million persons fled to neighboring countries to escape the civil conflict, and remain outside the country on their own or in refugee camps, primarily in Guinea and Libra. Sierra Leone is an extremely poor country. Before the civil war began in 1992, more than 70 percent of the 4.5 million citizens were involved in some aspect of agriculture, mainly subsistence farming.



In the past, these same mercenaries were responsible for extorting the failing government of Sierra Leone



http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/sierra_leone.htm

1 comment:

  1. The brutality and nature of the RUF morphed from a fight cause for freedom to terrorism.

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