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	Revolutionary United Front - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The RUF was created by Sankoh and two allies, Abu Kanu and Rashid Mansaray, with substantial assistance from Charles Taylor of Liberia.
		At first, the RUF was popular with Sierra Leoneans, many of whom resented a Freetown elite seen as corrupt and looked forward to promised free education and health care and equitable sharing of diamond revenues.
		After a coup by the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC) in 1997, the RUF and AFRC created a joint junta to control the country before evicted from the capital by the invasion of a Nigerian-led West African force that reinstated the rule of President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Revolutionary_United_Front (800 words)

	NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Revolutionary United Front
		The Revolutionary United Front, or RUF, was a rebel army that fought a failed ten-year insurrection in Sierra Leone (A republic in West Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1961) starting in 1991 and ending in 2002.
		The RUF was created by Sankoh and two allies, Abu Kanu and Rashid Mansaray, with substantial assistance from Charles Taylor (additional info and facts about Charles Taylor) of Liberia (A republic in West Africa; established in 1822 by Americans as a way to free negro slaves).
		At first, the RUF was popular with Sierra Leoneans, many of whom resented a Freetown (Port city and the capital and largest city of Sierra Leone) elite seen as corrupt and looked forward to promised free education and health care and equitable sharing of diamond revenues.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Revolutionary-United-Front (2397 words)

	Revolutionary United Front (RUF) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The RUF is a loosely organized force that fought a ten-year civil war to seize control of the lucrative diamond-producing regions of the country.
		The RUF was virtually dismantled by the imprisonment of RUF leader Foday Sankoh in 2001; a Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration program begun in mid-2001; and the official end to the civil war in January 2002.
		Ibrahim Abdullah and Patrick Muana, "The Revolutionary United Front: A Revolt of the Lumpenproletariat" in Christopher Clapham (ed.) African Guerillas, James Currey, 1998.
	www.fas.org /irp/world/para/ruf.htm (352 words)

	Revolutionary United Front (RUF)
		RUF attacks continued, in part because of disagreement in the leadership over the peace agreement, while in Freetown, a number of army officers were arrested in a suspected coup plot.
		In March 2002 RUF leader Foday Sankoh and 49 RUF co-defendants were indicted with 16 counts of murder and 54 counts of shooting with intent to commit murder in connection with the 2000 incident outside Sankoh's residence in Freetown in which 20 persons were killed and 80 persons were injured.
		No action was taken against the RUF rebels responsible for the following killings in 2000: The April and May killings of U.N. peacekeepers; the May killings of journalists Kurt Schork and Miguel Gil Moreno; the June killings in the attack on Port Loko; and the August killing of nine civilians in the village of Folloh.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/para/ruf.htm (2781 words)

	United Front
		This united front is the basic approach to ending monopoly capitalism and attaining socialism.
		The united front for socialist revolution will include all class strata and groups who are oppressed by capital as well as the working class - the lower and some of the middle strata of the petty bourgeoisie, oppressed minorities, women, young workers and students.
		Revolutionaries among oppressed workers have the tasks of uniting and leading the movements of their people and opposing narrow interests.
	home.clear.net.nz /pages/cpa/Theory/UF.html (2572 words)

	Revolutionary United Front (RUF) - Jane's Middle East/Africa News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Units fought in small groups under the leadership of a local commander and women were treated for the most part as equals.
		The RUF is a significant threat to the government and stability in the region.
		The RUF pursued a systematic policy of clearing the countryside of rural and farm workers, preventing the government from exploiting diamond mines and seizing foreign hostages (all of whom were released unharmed).
	www.janes.com /regional_news/africa_middle_east/news/jwit/jwit000519_2_n.shtml (1100 words)

	[20 Aug 1999] SC/6714 : SECURITY COUNCIL EXPANDS ROLE OF UNITED NATIONS IN SIERRA LEONE; MORE MILITARY PERSONNEL TO ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Underscoring the importance of the safety, security and freedom of movement of United Nations and associated personnel, the Council noted that the Government and the Revolutionary United Front had agreed to provide guarantees in that regard, and urged all parties to respect fully the status of those personnel.
		The international community and the United Nations have an important responsibility to assist Sierra Leone and to ensure that momentum is maintained, especially in the critical phase immediately after the signing of the agreement.
		The objective of the United States was to promote a regional peace that would end the conflict, relieve the suffering of the Sierra Leonean people and foster peace and national reconciliation, he said.
	www.un.org /News/Press/docs/1999/19990820.sc6714.html (6549 words)

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		RUF has called for the release of Foday Sankoh and other RUF members in Government custody as well as for a cessation of hostilities by the pro-Government forces.
		RUF also staged a series of attacks on the Jordanian company deployed at Rokel bridge as well as on the positions of the Nigerian contingent at Port Loko.
		RUF troops are reported to have killed two boys and a young man on 31 May at Maforay village near Port Loko, after they refused to join their fighting forces.
	www.hri.ca /fortherecord2000/documentation/security/S-2000-751.htm (7215 words)

	MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base
		The RUF continued to fight the multiple successive governments of Sierra Leone through the 1990s and, with support from Charles Taylor, intermittently occupied the diamond-producing areas of Sierra Leone, contributing to the “blood diamond” trade of West Africa.
		The RUF continued its attacks during the peace negotiations, and eventually came out in a much stronger position after their implementation, with a more legitimate face in the government.
		Disarmament of RUF rebels began in May 2001, and the war was officially declared over in January 2002, essentially the end of the RUF.
	www.tkb.org /Group.jsp?groupID=4247 (664 words)

	Sierra Leone
		The AFRC and RUF junta forces were defeated and driven out of Freetown by forces of the Economic Organization of West African States (ECOWAS) Monitoring Group (ECOMOG), led by the armed forces of Nigeria.
		Under the terms of the Lome accord, a cease-fire was agreed to, and the United Nations pledged to send a sizeable peacekeeping force to oversee the disarmament and demobilization of an estimated 45,000 combatants on both sides.
		The United Nations force, which had been designed, equipped, and deployed as a peacekeeping force, was quickly forced into actual combat with RUF -- one of the parties that had pledged to cooperate with it.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/war/sierra_leone.htm (4264 words)

	Annexes: Peace Agreement Between the Government of Sierra Leone and the Revolutionary United Front of Sierra Leone ...
		REVOLUTIONARY UNITED FRONT OF SIERRA LEONE ON THE RELEASE
		The Government of Sierra Leone (GOSL) and the Revolutionary United Front (RUF/SL) have agreed to implement as soon as possible the provision of the Cease-fire Agreement which was signed on 18 May 1999 in Lome, relating to the immediate release of prisoners of war and non-combatants.
		Both the Government of Sierra Leone and the Revolutionary United Front of Sierra Leone decided that such a Committee be established by the UN and chaired by the UN Chief Military Observer in Sierra Leone and comprising representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), UNICEF and other relevant UN Agencies and NGOs.
	www.usip.org /library/pa/sl/sierra_leone_07071999annex.html (1812 words)

	Celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the NDF
		For 25 crucial years the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) has proved itself the indubitable core of the revolutionary united front for national democratic revolution in the Philippines and a shining light in the international united front against imperialism.
		Revolutionary organisations of the NDF such KM, Makibaka, Christians for National Revolution, Cordillera People's Democratic Front and others organised impressive sectoral organisations on both legal and underground levels.
		Confused notions of the united front, derived from Nicaragua and El Salvador, which reduced the leading role of the Communist Party to that of an affiliate under the guise of building alliances with the national bourgeoisie, contributed to the right opportunist trend internationally.
	www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/54a/078.html (703 words)

	PRWC - Reaffirm Our Basic Principles and Carry the Revolution Forward - 1991 CPP Anniversary Statement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The purpose of this united front is to broaden the support for and strengthen the revolutionary armed struggle and the legal democratic movement.
		The revolutionary united front cannot exist without the leadership of the working class through the Party and without the basic alliance of the working class and the peasantry as the foundation.
		It is a united front for armed struggle and it serves to pave the way for the establishment of organs of political power, especially at levels higher than that of the village.
	www.philippinerevolution.org /cpp/astm/1991/1991e03.shtml (3082 words)

	BBC News \| AFRICA \| Sierra Leone - giving up guns?
		The surrendering of weapons is seen as a crucial component in a peace process which the UN believes is now gathering momentum, despite reports of continuing fighting in the east of Sierra Leone and a host of unresolved issues.
		RUF officers at the camp in Lunsar respond warily to questions about their movement's alleged record of atrocities against civilians.
		The RUF says the speed of its own disarmament and demobilisation is dependent on a reciprocal response from the CDF.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/world/africa/1421266.stm (682 words)

	Footpaths to Democracy - Revolutionary United Front of Sierra Leone - Sierra Leone Web
		It is this rallying call that has been set to song as the RUF Anthem which journalists are jailed for, for publishing and distributing this motivating anthem in Freetown.
		We herein appeal to the United Nations Security Council to seize itself of the grave matter of the spread of small arms and the planting of anti-personnel mines.
		To achieve this, the RUF calls for a cultural revolution whose main objective will be the liberation of our minds to instill in everyone of us a high sense of African patriotism.
	www.sierra-leone.org /footpaths.html (7666 words)

	Thousands Flee to Sierra Leone Capital as War Looms
		As the confusion intensified, the whereabouts of Foday Sankoh, the leader of the Revolutionary United Front, remained unclear.
		And the United Nations mission, whose mandate had been to keep the peace as a neutral force, has essentially become allied with the Sierra Leonean army and a militia known as the Kamajors to stave off a rebel assault on Freetown.
		Abraham, whose hands were hacked off by the Revolutionary United Front during an attack on Waterloo in January 1999, was carrying a large nylon bag on his head, steadying it with the stumps of his arms.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/world/africa/051100sierra-leone.html (784 words)

	Africa: Country Report
		Revolutionary United Front rebels threatened to kill Lewis, the Freetown stringer for Voice of America radio, and his family, after setting their house on fire.
		Rebel soldiers of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) kidnapped Espinosa, a reporter for the Spanish daily El Mundo, and Saint-Paul, a reporter for the French daily Le Figaro, when the two journalists attempted to interview the RUF commander in the Calaba Town area of east Freetown.
		At the time of his abduction, Kai-Banya was traveling with the five RUF commanders, who were on their way to northern Sierra Leone to prepare for the return from Togo of RUF leader Foday Sankoh.
	www.cpj.org /attacks99/africa99/Sierra.html (3772 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A double amputee, whose hands were hacked off by members of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) during their January offensive to take the capital Liberty, leans his head down as a man who lost his leg walks by.
		A double amputee, whose hands were hacked off by members of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) during their January offensive to take the capital Liberty, sits in a camp for the displaced.
		This girl was one of three people within the same family to have both hands hacked off by the Revolutionary United Front.
	www.facstaff.bucknell.edu /ucarer/Sp05/ILaw/Simulation/mutilations.htm (273 words)

	The Situation in Sierra Leone
		The United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) had arrived in November 1999 to oversee the Lomé Peace Agreement between the RUF and the Sierra Leone government.
		The unprecedented RUF attacks, however, turned peacekeeping into peace enforcement, an initiative that the UNAMSIL was neither designed nor equipped for.
		Secretary-General Kofi Annan has emphasized that RUF leader Foday Sankoh must be brought to justice for the atrocities he committed, such as the mutilations and the abduction of children—who were reportedly drugged before fighting—into the RUF.
	www.ius.edu /SocialSciences/modelun/sierraleone.htm (3434 words)

	FACT SHEET: The Republic of Sierra Leone at a Glance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Since 1991, civil war between the government and the Revolutionary United Front has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths and the displacement of more than two million people (well over one-third of the population) many of who are now refugees in neighboring countries.
		With the assistance of the international community, President Kabbah and Revolutionary United Front leader Sankoh negotiated the Lome Peace Agreement, which was signed on July 7, 1999.
		Following these events, Sankoh and other senior members of the Revolutionary United Front were arrested and the group was stripped of its positions in government.
	deploymentlink.osd.mil /deploy/info/africa/sierra_leone/index.shtml (1082 words)

	United Nations Daily Highlights, 00-05-03
		Following the fighting that took place yesterday and earlier today between UN troops and the Revolutionary United Front in the northern areas of Makeni and Magburaka, he confirmed that seven UN soldiers had been killed.
		The United Nations also confirmed that about 50 UN personnel are being detained by the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) -- including at least 21 in Makeni and Magburaka, and 28 in the eastern area of Kailahun.
		The United Nations made available a transcript of a press conference given on Sunday in Baghdad by the new UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq, Tun Myat.
	www.hri.org /news/world/undh/2000/00-05-03.undh.html (1038 words)

	World Press Review - Sierra Leone
		From 1991-2001, rebels from the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) and pro-government militias kidnapped children to use as combatants.
		In fact, the RUF has not disbanded, it has not been disarmed, they are still holding on to their guns.
		So the RUF is really a threat, we cannot underestimate the power and the strength of the RUF, especially when we know that these people have connections outside.
	www.worldpress.org /africa/0321neville.htm (4642 words)

	Sierra Leone 2000: Country Report
		In 2000, Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebels killed three reporters, bringing to 15 the total number of journalists killed in the war-plagued West African nation since 1997.
		While the RUF remained the most serious threat to the safety of journalists covering the decade-old conflict, all the other parties were responsible for press freedom violations as well.
		Armed rebels of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) assaulted Schuler, a reporter with the U.S. daily Christian Science Monitor, while she was covering a spontaneous demonstration outside the Freetown residence of RUF leader Foday Sankoh.
	www.cpj.org /attacks00/africa00/Sierra.html (1344 words)

	Sierra Leone - The Rebels: Revolutionary United Front (RUF)
		Sierra Leone - The Rebels: Revolutionary United Front (RUF) - DangerFinder
		The 3000-man Revolutionary United Front is predominantly Muslim and consists mainly of ragtag adolescents and villagers forced into fighting.
		RUF rebels were known to commit atrocities on a regular basis.
	www.comebackalive.com /df/dplaces/sierrale/player8.htm (287 words)

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