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...drew up a fallback plan for what to do if one side decided to renege on its word. "The R.U.F. was supposed to turn in its guns," says U.N. spokesman Fred Eckhard. "Instead it turned its guns on us." Last week Sankoh vanished after allegedly planning a coup. His troops continue to menace the capital...
...embittered by serving as part of a U.N. peacekeeping force in the Democratic Republic of Congo in a civil war that saw the assassination of that country's leader, Patrice Lumumba, whom Sankoh admired. After a brief and unhappy stint as a cameraman in Britain, Sankoh supported a 1971 coup attempt in Sierra Leone, was found guilty of "failing to report a mutiny" and was jailed for seven years. The humiliations were the kernels of his revolution...
...Without the mercenaries organizing the government's defenses, the RUF wrought havoc in the countryside, and then a coup by former Strasser loyalists led by Colonel Johnny Paul Koroma overthrew Kabbah and invited the RUF into the capital for an orgy of bloodletting and looting. The West urged Nigeria to take charge, and in February 1998 the ECOMOG intervention force seized Freetown, restored Kabbah to power and arrested Foday Sankoh, who was later sentenced to death. But a year later, the RUF overwhelmed ECOMOG and recaptured the capital, freeing Sankoh and savaging the civilian population. Government control was only restored...
...frustrating the reformers using quasi-legal and political steps. Once they used their legislative majority to block Khatami's reform efforts, but now they've lost that. Still, the Supreme Leader's injunction against using illegal means makes it unlikely that they'd resort to something like a coup to stop the reformers from taking control of parliament. And the Supreme Leader has to be aware that the backlash against the reforms is making people more eager for change and turning them against the revolution...
...authority. To date, Khatami has deferred to the court's authority on this matter. Yet with the trials following so closely on the heels of the newspaper closings, this could be a critical opportunity for Khatami to reassert his leadership to national and global communities without risking a clerical coup. The youth are clearly behind Khatami and his reform-minded agenda. However, there is always the risk that they will become impatient with Khatami's conciliatory approach and seek more radical change. Despite their restrictive upbringing, they have proven ready to raise their voices against authoritarian rule...