Word: foday
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bombing rebel hideouts. Tens of thousands of village-based militia--traditional hunters called kamajors--have stalked the jungles battling R.U.F. forces. But the Nigerians have discovered that the rebel fire seems to be nearly inextinguishable. Hopes for negotiations have been blocked by rebel demands for the release of Corporal Foday Sankoh, an R.U.F. leader who had been captured and sentenced to death. Two weeks ago, R.U.F. stormed the capital, using an army that included some 5,000 teenage soldiers who sneaked into Freetown unarmed and dug up weapons that had been buried in local graveyards...
...encores were Foday Musa Suso's "Tilliboyo" ("Sunset") and John Oswald's "Specter," the former a pleasant African tune rendered in amplified pizzicato, the latter a terrifying essay in electric feedback. The enthusiastic crowd of 800 was reluctant to cease its applause...