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	Foday Sankoh
		Foday Sankoh (October 17, 1937 - July 29, 2003) was a leader of the Sierra Leone rebel faction Revolutionary United Front in the 10-year-long Sierra Leonean civil war, which ended in 2002.
		Sankoh was later arrested after his soldiers gunned down a number of protesters outside his Freetown home in 2000.
		Sankoh was handed to the British and, under jurisdiction of a UN-backed court, he was indicted on 17 counts for various war crimes, including crimes against humanity, rape, sexual slavery and extermination.
	www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/f/fo/foday_sankoh.html (345 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Foday Sankoh
		Foday Sankoh, who died on Tuesday aged 65, was the leader of one of the world's most brutal guerrilla movements; for 10 years his Revolutionary United Front (RUF) terrorised the people of Sierra Leone, gang-raping women and girls and killing or hacking off the limbs of suspected opponents.
		Sankoh's outwardly gentle demeanour and his rabble-rousing charisma convinced a lot of people of his good intentions, and in its early stages the RUF attracted the support of idealists opposed to the corrupt regime of Joseph Momoh.
		Sankoh's response to criticism was to deny stories of atrocities, although he was fond of quoting the saying: "When a lion and an elephant are fighting, the grass is going to suffer." He had no compunction about eliminating opponents.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&targetRule=10&xml=/news/2003/07/31/db3101.xml (1202 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Africa \| Foday Sankoh: The cruel rebel
		Foday Sankoh led a vicious rebel group whose fighters used machetes to hack off the hands, feet, lips and ears of Sierra Leone's civilians and raped thousands of girls and women.
		After training in Libya, Sankoh returned with his comrades to Liberia where he took part in the early stages of the rebellion in 1990 that was to bring Mr Taylor to power.
		With Sankoh already in prison, Alimamy Pallo Bangura, was its presidential candidate but he received just 1.7% of the vote and the RUFP did not gain a single seat in parliament.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/3110629.stm (657 words)

	Foday Sankoh: 'I'm God': Africa: Features: News24
		Freetown - Foday Sankoh, who died on Tuesday, was a born-again Christian whose leadership of the rebels in Sierra Leone epitomised the most brutal tradition of rebel fighting in Africa, CNN reports.
		Sankoh was captured after his fighters gunned down more than a dozen protesters outside his Freetown home, and had been in UN custody in prisons and hospitals since.
		Sankoh, born October 17, 1937, had faced a 17-count war-crimes indictment, as well as separate charges in a Sierra Leone national court.
	www.news24.com /News24/Africa/Features/0,9294,2-11-37_1395157,00.html (366 words)

	Foday Sankoh \| Special reports \| Guardian Unlimited
		Foday Sankoh, who has died in hospital in UN custody, aged 65, became the symbol of the particularly dehumanising civil war in Sierra Leone in the early 1990s.
		When Sankoh was released he became a photographer and variously described himself as having specialised in wedding and portrait photographs, and as having been a cameraman for state television.
		Sankoh was delighted by the intervention of the Rev Jesse Jackson in the negotiations, and even more so by a telephone call from President Clinton urging him to commit to peace.
	www.guardian.co.uk /westafrica/story/0,,1009370,00.html (879 words)

	Foday Sankoh: Sierra Leone's Rebel with a Cause
		Foday Sankoh: Sierra Leone's Rebel with a Cause
		In their most recent reign of terror on the country, the RUF captured some 500 peacekeepers in the beginning of May. A number had been released prior to Sankoh's capture and there has been speculation on how his arrest would affect the release of the remaining hostages.
		Sankoh began his political career in the 1970s, as a critic of widespread corruption.
	www.infoplease.com /spot/sankoh1.html (552 words)

	Blog of Death: Foday Sankoh
		Foday Saybana Sankoh, the rebel leader who instigated a decade of civil war in Sierra Leone, died on July 29 from natural causes.
		Sankoh served seven years in prison for his part in the insurgence, then went to Libya to train in the guerrilla camps with a group of exiles.
		In 2000, Sankoh was captured outside his Freetown home by pro-government troops, and the RUF was disbanded.
	www.blogofdeath.com /archives/000199.html (248 words)

	News: Sierra Leone, Sierra Leone ex-rebel leader Foday Sankoh dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Sankoh's so-called jungle army of barefoot conscripts, child soldiers and army deserters was notorious for hacking off the limbs of civilians as they razed villages, raping and murdering many in their path in Sierra Leone's 1991-2001 civil war.
		Sankoh was sentenced to death for treason and murder in 1998, but pardoned the following year, when the RUF signed a peace accord with the government that granted the rebels a blanket amnesty for their atrocities.
		Sankoh was indicted for war crimes by the UN-backed court set up under an agreement between the United Nations and Sierra Leone early last year.
	wwww.reliefweb.int /w/Rwb.nsf/0/64b5f6520494b2bd85256d730064c915?OpenDocument (637 words)

	CNN.com - World - Rebel leader Foday Sankoh captured in Sierra Leone; Freetown celebrates - May 17, 2000
		Sankoh was captured early Wednesday next door to his home, which he had slipped away from on May 8 after RUF fighters opened fire on thousands of demonstrators, killing 19 people, witnesses said.
		Sankoh was stripped naked by the jubilant crowd and taken to the home of ex-junta leader Johnny Paul Koroma, who heads the forces that captured Sankoh.
		Sankoh, who was sentenced to death for treason in 1998 for his part in an eight-year civil war, was made vice president of Sierra Leone under the July accord.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/africa/05/17/sleone.sankoh.04/index.html (1069 words)

	Neighbors Grab Fugitive Rebel in Sierra Leone
		Sankoh, who was last seen at his house shortly after his bodyguards killed 19 demonstrators outside the compound last week, returned this morning in the apparent hope of retrieving some possessions before turning himself in to the Nigerian Embassy, witnesses said.
		Sankoh, whose forces took 500 United Nations peacekeepers hostage early this month, was in custody of Sierra Leone's government and was being protected by British paratroopers, United Nations and British officials said.
		Sankoh's forces are responsible for a wave of terror in 1998 and 1999 when they killed, raped and hacked off the limbs of thousands of citizens, but in recent days, the government had said that the rebel leader could take his place in the country's power-sharing government.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/world/africa/051800sierra-leone.html (1612 words)

	Former RUF Leader Foday Sankoh Charged With Murder
		Sankoh, who has been held at a secret location since his arrest in May 2000 in connection with the killings of 19 people during demonstrations outside his home, did not enter a plea.
		Sankoh was charged within days of President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah lifting a four-year state of emergency, which had allowed the government to hold Sankoh indefinitely without bringing charges against him.
		Sankoh is also expected to face charges before a separate U.N.-organized war crimes tribunal in Sierra Leone once such a court has been established.
	www.unwire.org /unwire/20020305/24359_story.asp (310 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Foday Sankoh
		Foday Sankoh (October 17, 1937 - July 29, 2003) was a leader of the Sierra Leone rebel faction Revolutionary United Front (RUF) in the 10-year-long Sierra Leonean civil war, which ended in 2002.
		After his activism earned him a short prison term, Sankoh joined a Cold War guerilla camp in Libya sponsored by Muammar al-Qaddafi, where Muammar al-Qaddafi was preaching revolutionary ideas to West African dissidents.
		During the ten-year war, Sankoh broke several promises to stop fighting, including the Abdijan Agreements and the Lomé Peace Accord signed in 1999.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Foday_Sankoh (416 words)

	In Looted Home in Sierra Leone, a Rebel Riddle
		Sankoh -- the man responsible for a terror campaign that left thousands of men, women and children killed or maimed -- "absolute and free pardon." That allowed him to live, join a power-sharing government, form his political party and, eventually, run for president.
		Instead, Foday Sankoh, the legendary survivor, a jungle fighter with barely a primary school education, a failed commercial photographer, a cashiered corporal of Sierra Leone's army, has succeeded in turning his small country into a big problem for the world, and a policy quagmire for the West.
		Sankoh, if he is alive, certainly sees himself in the first category, and has gambled that the international community will fall into one of the others.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/world/africa/051000sierra-leone.html (1383 words)

	Who is Foday Sankoh? \| Special reports \| Guardian Unlimited
		A former army corporal and television cameraman, Sankoh was a student leader in the 1970s.
		Sankoh's stepping stone back to Sierra Leone was the neighbouring republic of Liberia, where he formed a close alliance with ruthless rebel chief Charles Taylor, who seized the presidency in 1998 after an appalling eight-year campaign of terror.
		Sankoh's capture is unlikely, in the short term, to affect the dire situation of a country which has, in any meaningful sense of the word, ceased to exist.
	www.guardian.co.uk /sierra/article/0,2763,221853,00.html (670 words)

	Foday Sankoh - Sierra Leone - Savimbi - Worldpress.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Few in Africa—or, indeed, the rest of the world—will mourn the death of Foday Sankoh, the ruthless Sierra Leonean rebel leader who died on July 29 in a Freetown hospital at age 65.
		Sankoh would then sit back and watch as his fellow countrymen died a slow and painful death.
		Sankoh and Savimbi, bankrolled by fortune-seeking foreign governments, conducted protracted wars against their own governments, waving the banners of “freedom,” “national liberation,” and “democracy.” For that reason, they killed many thousands of innocent Africans and consigned thousands more to starvation.
	www.worldpress.org /print_article.cfm?article_id=1559&dont=yes (429 words)

	Charting The Way Forward With Ideas, Comments And Analyses Of Key National Issues And Events
		Sankoh emerged a week later to defy, contemptuously on radio, the "traitors" and more or less issued a 72 hour notice to them to report to RUF War Council headquarters and threatened to withdraw the accreditation of the RUF members on the Commission for the Consolidation of Peace (CCP) in Freetown.
		It charged that Sankoh was refusing to meet UN officials and his own duly accredited members on the CCP who had travelled to discuss the implementation process with him and that he had even refused to nominate members to the various committees as provided under the terms of the Accord.
		A defiant Foday Sankoh emerged from his luxurious Sheraton Hotel suite in Abuja to announce to the world that he was still leader of the RUF and that the coup plotters would not succeed.
	www.focus-on-sierra-leone.co.uk /Vol3_1.htm (9314 words)

	Rebel leader Foday Sankoh charged with murder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		I am always Sankoh and I will continue to be Sankoh," Reuters reported the rebel leader as saying in court, adding that he appeared thin and weak as he heard the charges against him.
		The charges relate to an incident on 8 May 2000 when a peaceful demonstration outside Sankoh's house turned bloody after his supporters reportedly fired shots into the crowd killing "21 innocent civilians", Sierra Leone's attorney general and minister of justice, Solomon Berewa, said on the BBC on Monday.
		Sankoh was detained by the authorities shortly afterwards and has been held at an undisclosed location ever since.
	www.irinnews.org /print.asp?ReportID=23603 (534 words)

	Sierra Leone's rebel leader Foday Sankoh, a dreaded cult figure
		Sankoh was revered by rural peasants who nevertheless became the main targets of a grisly rebellion launched by his Revolutionary United Front (RUF) in 1991.
		Sankoh's contempt for the United Nations began after his brief service in the then Belgian Congo under the UN flag in the early 1960s.
		Sankoh had served in the British colonial army, later became a photographer, and landed himself in jail several times over political opposition activities.
	quickstart.clari.net /qs_se/webnews/wed/cp/Qsleone-sankoh-obit.Rv6Y_DlU.html (566 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Main News
		Sankoh, whom UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan holds personally responsible for the breakdown of the 1999 Lome agreement that ended Sierra Leone’s eight-year civil war, was flown by helicopter to the airport after being seized, paraded naked and handed over by Sierra Leone officials.
		Sankoh was shot in the foot on the way to the Nigerian Embassy, a witness said.
		Sankoh, whose whereabouts had been unknown for the past 10 days, leading to rumours that he was dead, was initially taken to barracks in Freetown but was whisked away after it was surrounded by a mob of thousands baying for his blood.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2000/20000518/main3.htm (620 words)

	Charles Taylor Defends Sankoh
		But Sierra Leone's ruthless rebel veteran Foday Sankoh, whose trademark for political power includes amputating limbs of babies, is not one of the few, and there is every indication that his political fortunes are just beginning.
		Sankoh's arrest may complicate efforts to secure the release of the hostages by the rebels.
		Jesse Jackson earlier announced that Sankoh's "voice was positive" in search for peace, compared Sankoh's drugged rebels to the ANC of South Africa, and sought a "port of safety" for Mr.
	www.theperspective.org /sankohrehab.html (1857 words)

	CNN.com - The resistible rise of Foday Sankoh - May 12, 2000
		Sankoh may well have been tempted to pinch himself last summer when he received a phone call from President Clinton urging him to accept a peace deal that Reverend Jesse Jackson had spent days cajoling him to sign.
		The rebels were smashed and confined to small pockets of the country, the diamond fields secured and Foday Sankoh forced to the negotiating table to discuss allowing free elections.
		Sankoh fired Bockarie late last year, but the commander fled to Liberia, where he began to organize a new insurgency that would ensure continued access by the RUF -- and its Liberian backers -- to the diamond fields.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/africa/05/12/leone5_12.a.tm/index.html (1327 words)

	Trial Watch : Foday Sankoh
		Foday Saybana Sankoh was born on 17 December 1937 in Masang Mayoso, Tonkolili district, Sierra Leone.
		According to the indictment, Sankoh was the leader of the RUF and one of the principal leaders of the alliance between RUF and AFCR.
		During the period relevant for the indictment, the RUF and AFRC are said to have, in coordination with or on orders of Sankoh, launched armed attacks on the territory of Sierra Leone.
	www.trial-ch.org /en/trial-watch/profile/db/facts/foday_sankoh_99.html (447 words)

	WorldNetDaily: Jackson blames feds for failure in Africa
		Sankoh appeared in handcuffs on Sierra Leone state television three days later and appealed to his men to respect a new cease-fire with Kabbah's government and the Nigerian ECOMOG troops supporting it.
		In January 1999, Foday Sankoh's rebels launched their offensive, marching on the capital Freetown behind a "human shield" of civilians that prevented the Nigerian ECOMOG peacekeepers from launching an effective counterattack.
		As part of the Lomé Accord, Foday Sankoh, the death row prisoner released from jail at Jesse Jackson's urging, was made vice president of Sierra Leone.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=26800 (2934 words)

	Fair Trial Urged for Rebel Leader Sankoh (Human Rights Watch, 17-5-2000)
		Foday Sankoh must not be subjected to mob rule.
		Sankoh should be informed of the specific charges against him as soon as possible, according to fair trial standards.
		"Foday Sankoh must not be subjected to mob rule," said Peter Takirambudde, executive director of the Africa division of Human Rights Watch.
	www.hrw.org /press/2000/05/sl0517.htm (363 words)

	Sierra Leone Live Daily News - Foday Sankoh Charged with Murder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Sankoh's first court appearance since his arrest two years ago.
		Sankoh and his boys were charged with 16 counts of murder and 54 counts of shooting with intent to murder.
		The 31 West Side Boys including their leader, Foday Kallay, were charged with 11 counts of murder and 11 counts of robbery with aggravation.
	salonelive.com /news/templates/general_news.asp?articleid=58&zoneid=2 (497 words)

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