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	Johnny Paul Koroma -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Johnny Paul Koroma (born May 9, 1960 in Tombodu — died June 1, 2003 in Foya Kamala, Liberia) was the head of the (additional info and facts about Armed Forces Revolutionary Council) Armed Forces Revolutionary Council of Sierra Leone from May 1997 to February 1998.
		Koroma received military training in (A republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea; gained independence from Britain in 1960; most populous African country) Nigeria and (A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland) Britain.
		Koroma's forces were driven out of the capital, (Port city and the capital and largest city of Sierra Leone) Freetown, in February 1998 by Nigerian-led forces of the (additional info and facts about Economic Community of West African States) Economic Community of West African States, and Kabbah was subsequently restored to power.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/jo/johnny_paul_koroma.htm (400 words)

	ipedia.com: Johnny Paul Koromah Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Johnny Paul Koroma Maj. Johnny Paul Koroma was a junior officer in the Sierra Leone Army until his imprisonment in Freetown's Pademba Road Prison for his alleged involvement [date unknown] in an...
		Johnny Paul Koroma (ret.) was a junior officer in the Sierra Leone Army (SLA) until his imprisonment in Freetown's Pademba Road Prison for his alleged involvement [date unknown] in an attempted coup.
		Koroma's story is very much that of the AFRC, and indeed the failings of the Abidjan Peace Accord struck between the Government of Sierra Leone and the RUF on 30 November 1996.
	www.ipedia.com /johnny_paul_koromah.html (635 words)

	Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Johnny Paul Koromah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Johnny Paul Koroma (born May 9, 1960) was a major in the Sierra Leone Army (SLA) until his imprisonment in 1996 for his alleged involvement in a failed coup against President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah.
		In 1996, Johnny Paul Koroma was involved in an attempt to overthrow the government of President Kabbah.
		Koroma immediately sought to ease the situation, seeking mediation, which resulted in the signing of a peace accord in late October 1997 in Conakry, Republic of Guinea.
	www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref/index.php?title=Johnny_Paul_Koromah (1072 words)

	Sierra leone Live (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		LEAD-IN: Johnny Paul Koroma, the former leader of the AFRC military junta in Sierra Leone, is the latest candidate to declare his desire to run for the presidency on a Peace and Liberation Party ticket in elections scheduled for the 14th of May in Sierra Leone.
		Apart from the notoriety of his AFRC junta, Koroma actually caught the attention of the public in May 2000 when, in the face of an advance on the capital by RUF rebels, he mobilised the country’s disparate fighting forces to stop the RUF from seizing power.
		But Koroma told me in an interview that the statements were made in good faith, and that he wants a united army that will protect the territory of Sierra Leone.
	www.salonelive.com /news/anmviewer.asp?a=40&print=yes (590 words)

	Indictment Profiles
		Johnny Paul Koroma aka JPK of Tombodu, Kono District, Republic of Sierra Leone.
		Koroma was the leader and Chairman of the Armed Forces of Sierra Leone (AFRC) who seized power from the elected government in a coup d'etat on May 25, 1997.
		Koroma is charged with 17 counts of war crimes, including unlawful killings, abductions, forced labor, physical violence, sexual violence, use of child soldiers, looting and burning of civilian structures.
	americanradioworks.publicradio.org /features/sierra_leone_trial/cases/koroma.html (130 words)

	Feature: Johnny Paul Koroma - Peter C. Andersen, 5 June 2001 - Sierra Leone Web
		Koroma still defends his decision to invite the RUF rebels to join the junta, and he insists that is exactly which the government is doing today.
		Koroma, a born-again Christian since he was jailed in 1996 for allegedly plotting a military coup, says today that because of his faith he has no hesitation in working with his one-time adversaries to bring about peace.
		"Johnny Paul," as he popularly known these days, acknowledged what has been an open secret in Freetown for some time -- that he is considering a try for the presidency in elections scheduled for the end of this year.
	www.sierra-leone.org /feature060501.html (639 words)

	Johnny Paul Koromah
		The AFRC coup was accompanied by an explosion of violence against civilians throughout the nation; the key strategic change was that the RUF had immediate access throughout the country, something they had failed to achieve through six years of military action.
		To justify the AFRC coup, Koroma cited corruption, the erosion of State sovereignty, over-dependance on foreign nations, and the failure of the Government of Sierra Leone to adequately address tensions between the SLA and government supported tribally-based militia movements, in particular the Kamajors.
		By 2000, Koroma was no longer held significant influence over the RUF leadership, as evidenced by the invovlement of ex-AFRC members (from a splinter group called the West Side Boys)in defending towns in Port Loko District against a renewed RUF offensive in May 2000.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/j/jo/johnny_paul_koromah.html (616 words)

	RTE News - Sierra Leonian rebels release six hostages
		Koroma, said that he had spoken with his supporters and ordered the unconditional release of all the hostages, including some 100 children.
		Koroma, who was speaking from the Liberian capital Monrovia, also said claims that he had been held captive by the rival United Revolutionary Front were unfounded.
		Koroma's release from the hands of the rival gang in return for the freedom of the hostages.
	www.rte.ie /news/1999/0808/leone.html (193 words)

	SIERRA LEONE/KOROMA
		Johnny Paul Koroma says he made mistakes in the past, but wants to redeem his reputation by supporting the government.
		Koroma might reasonably be mistaken for a warlord who commands a private army of loyal followers.
		Koroma's role in the new military alliance between the regular army, his men, and the traditional Kamajor militia remains unclear, although he insists he is not playing a major part.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/news/2000/05/000514-sierra1.htm (871 words)

	We Yone Circle
		Johnny Paul Koroma has had his own say and what he has said is damaging to the government.
		Koroma won a majority of the votes cast by members of the armed forces, who, correspondingly gave a negligible percentage of their votes to President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah.
		Despite his unsavoury reputation as head of a junta that oppressed and suppressed the people, Koroma represents a bridge between a government the soldiers do not wholly perceive as pursuing their interests as vigorously as they would have liked, and the army 's dreams of a share in the control of the nation.
	www.network54.com /Forum/thread-208696-1026839492-Welcome! (2322 words)

	anb407-e05
		Johnny Paul Koroma’s father was a private in Sierra Leone’s colonial force and took part in the Burma campaign during World War II.
		Johnny Paul was born in 1960 in the north-east of Sierra Leone.
		Johnny Paul Koroma’s hold on government (from 27 May 1997 to 12 February 1998) was shaky at the best of times.
	ospiti.peacelink.it /anb-bia/nr407/e05.html (887 words)

	MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base
		A thirty-four-year-old, Sandhurst-trained, major in the Republic of Sierra Leone Military Forces, Koroma was being held in prison in Freetown at the time of the coup for his alleged part in a previous coup plot.
		Koroma, a born-again Christian, had also been implicated in the army's failure to protect the Sierra Rutile mine in January 1995, when it was overrun by the RUF and several Sierra Leonean and foreign hostages seized.
		In the political negotiations that followed the signing of the Lomé Agreement, Koroma was given the post of chairman of the Commission for the Consolidation of Peace, whose mandate was to supervise and monitor the overall implementation of the agreement.
	www.tkb.org /KeyLeader.jsp?memID=6033 (286 words)

	Rebel_Discord
		Johnny Paul Koroma who was "allowed" to proceed to Monrovia as part of the bargain to release the UN hostages in July has been doing his bit to promote the interest and welfare of his own AFRC supporters.
		Koroma has been at pains to restrain his men from restarting the fighting or adding any more to the state of uncertainty and insecurity in the country.
		Koroma and the AFRC recently issued a statement of grievances, with a list of thirteen demands, which was delivered to, among others, President Obasanjo and Togolese President Eyadema who hosted the Lomé peace talks.
	freespace.virgin.net /ambrose.ganda/Rebel_Discord.html (2770 words)

	SIERRA LEONE / SANKOH
		Koroma's group, the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council, or A-F-R-C. /// OPT /// In August, A-F-R-C soldiers took several R-U-F officials hostage to protest what they said was their "marginalization" by the peace process.
		Koroma told reporters he was "satisfied" with the agreement, and that, in his words, "everything is fine now." For his part, Mr.
		Koroma is also expected to hold a position in the new government, but Mr.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/news/1999/10/991001-leone22.htm (549 words)

	CNN - Mutinous soldiers scrap Sierra Leone constitution - May 28, 1997
		In a live radio address, Maj. Johnny Paul Koroma said his troops were not out to "antagonize anyone" and that a new government of national unity would be unveiled soon.
		Koroma declared himself head of the nation Sunday after his troops ousted President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah's government -- the third coup in less than five years for the beleaguered nation.
		Koroma blamed the deposed president for the recent collapse of a cease-fire with a main rebel faction, the Revolutionary United Front, which waged a five-year war against the government.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9705/28/sierra.leone (387 words)

	1997, May 25. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Still in power in mid-July, the Koroma junta formed a new government, comprising members of the military and the rebel group Revolutionary United Front (RUF).
		Nigerian military intervention helped Kabbah regain power, but ARFC leader Johnny Paul Koromah continued to pursue his reign of terror, though his power was temporarily compromised.
		Foday Sankoh, founder of the RUF, was sentenced to die for treason by a Sierra Leonean court.
	www.bartleby.com /67/4383.html (248 words)

	An Ethnic Divide Or an Image Factor? - Security Council - Global Policy Forum
		Johnny Paul Koroma and his Peace and Liberation Party.
		Some saw the vote for Johnny Paul Koroma as a protest against the senior hierarchy in the army.
		Also, if voting was on tribal lines, then Johnny Paul Koroma could not have scored the number in votes in a Mende heartland of the South and East.
	www.globalpolicy.org /security/issues/sierra/2002/0527elect.htm (1177 words)

	Liberia urged to hand over key fugitives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		David Crane confirmed that investigations had led the Court to believe that Johnny Paul Koroma, who led a military coup in 1997, and Sam Bockarie, a former leader of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), a defeated rebel movement, had both sought refuge in Liberia.
		Koroma was subsequently overthrown with the help of an international intervention force and Sierra Leone was returned to civilian rule.
		The charges against Koroma and Bockarie range from murder, sexual slavery and rape, to the forced conscription of children and attacks on United Nations peacekeepers.
	www.irinnews.org /print.asp?ReportID=33857 (576 words)

	Taylor, Koroma Frustrate UN Court - International Justice - Global Policy Forum
		But while the completion of the trials is essential to the overall mandate of the court which was to offset impunity in the ECOWAS subregion in the wake of the flagrant violation of human rights by so-called liberators over the last 15 years, the financial position of the special court is becoming a major challenge.
		This leaves the question of Johnny Paul Koroma who has been at large since his indictment was approved by the Special Court on May 7, 2003.
		It was rumored that Koroma and Sam Bockarie were royal guests of President Charles Taylor, but opinions began to change after news of Bockarie's death at the Ivorian border with Liberia indicated that rather than a royal guest in Monrovia, Sam Mosquita Bockarie had been a hireling leading a crack mercenary contingent in Cote d'Ivoire.
	www.globalpolicy.org /intljustice/tribunals/sierra/2005/0627frustrated.htm (972 words)

	Sankoh orders the RUF to disarm (Mano Vision magazine article) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		It was reported that two days after returning to Sierra Leone, Johnny Paul Koroma, former chairman of the AFRC broke down in tears when he met civilian amputees at a camp.
		Johnny Paul apparently apologised and claimed that he could not reach his men from where he was staying (presumably Kailahun).
		In response to these moves by Sankoh, Johnny Paul Koroma, who is looking very much the junior partner in this forced coalition, said that he was not that pleased at this development.
	www.manovision.com /is15ar02.htm (1496 words)

	The Anniston Star - An unnoticed successful election to end a forgotten war (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Featured among nine presidential hopefuls was Johnny Paul Koroma, a former army officer who had led the coup that temporarily ousted current incumbent Ahmed Tejan Kabbah back in 1997.
		Koroma was also the second-choice candidate of the RUF’s party.
		Koroma, who presided over a reign of terror in the capital Freetown for more than a year, advertised himself to voters as Johnny Paul ‘the angel’ Koroma, to remind them that since his last stint in government, he had become a born-again Christian.
	www.annistonstar.com /opinion/2002/as-insight-0616-0-2f12u1938.htm (753 words)

	Trial Watch - Johnny Paul Koroma (JPK)
		According to the indictment, at the time covered by the allegations, Johnny Paul Koroma was the head of the AFRC and as such exercised authority, command and control over all the members of the AFRC.
		Koroma, together with the RUF and the AFRC allegedly shared the same common plan, purpose or design, thereby constituting a common criminal enterprise which consisted of taking the necessary concerted actions to take over power and the control of the Sierra Leonean territory, in particular the regions where the diamond mines were located.
		According to the indictment, Koroma was considered to be criminally responsible for the above mentioned crimes, which he allegedly planned, instigated, ordered and for which in any other way lent his support or which were committed in the context of a joint criminal enterprise in which he participated.
	www.trial-ch.org /trialwatch/profiles/en/legalprocedures/p161.html (591 words)

	Sierra Leone junta promises cease-fire, constitutional rule (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		It was the first time since the May 25 overthrow of President Tejan Ahmed Kabbah that a delegation from the military junta met representatives of the Economic Community of West African States.
		A Nigerian-led peacekeeping force has attempted to dislodge Koroma, and battles between the peacekeepers and troops loyal to the junta have left hundreds dead in and around Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown.
		Koroma's delegation at the talks expressed regret over the heavy casualties in the recent fighting and said it favored a peaceful resolution of the conflict.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/world/97/07/19/leone-truce.2-0.html (266 words)

	Kingsley Zuma: scammer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Briefly,I am the son of michael zuma of blessed memory, former asst.chief of millitary intelligence to major johnny p koroma, the former millitary head of state of sierra-leonne.
		When the millitary regime of johnny paul koroma was over powered by the joint forces of the west african peace keeping force,my late father and 23 other officers who served in johnny paul koroma,s Government were arrested and detained by the alhaji kabbah led elected civilian Government of Sierra-Laonne.
		As the news of the arrest hit the family,my mother and myself moved to cotonou, with surport of a family friend for safety as the families of the key players were hunted as will.
	www.talkaboutspam.com /group/alt.kill.spammers/messages/10695.html (240 words)

	Sierra Leone tribunal presses Nigeria - Boston.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The tribunal is trying several rebel military commanders on charges stemming from accusations of systematic killings, rapes, enslavement of child soldiers and mutilation with machetes during Sierra Leone's 1991-2002 civil war.
		Koroma was reported in 2003 to have been killed by Liberian soldiers, but his body has not been transferred to authorities.
		De Silva told a news conference the last report the tribunal had indicated Koroma was alive in Guinea last year.
	www.boston.com /news/world/africa/articles/2005/09/30/sierra_leone_tribunal_presses_nigeria (514 words)

	Tribunal Probes Report of Suspect's Death (phillyBurbs.com) \| Africa
		White told her Koroma reportedly was killed by two fighters under his command in Liberia's northern Lofa County, where he had sought refuge, she said.
		Koroma was one of the first people charged by the tribunal investigating human rights abuses during the 1991-2000 civil war in the West African country.
		Koroma seized power in a 1997 officers' coup, allying himself with rebels who terrorized the country for a decade with their trademark atrocity of slicing off the hands, feet, lips and ears of living victims.
	www.phillyburbs.com /pb-dyn/news/91-06152003-108186.html (453 words)

	Sierra Leone - Johnny Paul Koroma and the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC)
		Koroma invited RUF leader Foday Sankoh into his cabinet and declared the army would be running the government until 2001.
		Peace talks in Abidjan were quashed in August 1997 after Koroma's announcement of "four more years" for the soldier-boys, and his government began to implode.
		Koroma joined Sankoh's boys back in the jungle, and while he didn't appear on The Price Is Right in Lome, he definitely was pulling some strings.
	www.comebackalive.com /df/dplaces/sierrale/player3.htm (248 words)

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