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...elected president of Sierra Leone, Ahmad Tejan Kabbah because he was dissatisfied with Kabbah’s inability to secure peace in a country that had seen constant fighting for the past seven years. Determined to tear down the existing governmental regime with maximum speed and strength, Koroma reinstated Foday Sankoh to a leadership position in RUF after he had been in exile in nearby Nigeria for starting the civil...

Author: By Amelia E. Lester and Antoinette C. Nwandu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Flight From Freetown | 9/27/2001 | See Source »

...Necdet Sezer 37. They're now getting $750,000 per show 39. Wavy lines, in comics 42. New Hampshire's motto, "Live Free or __" 43. Populous area, for short 46. Its third secret was not what Vatican critics said it would be 48. Sierra Leone's captured rebel chief Foday __ 51. When 7-Down bought in, she walked out 52. Most tender 53. Bear's exhortation 54. Glaswegian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz Crossword Jun. 5, 2000 | 6/5/2000 | See Source »

...FODAY SANKOH Captured: Sierra Leone rebel leader. Couldn't happen to a nicer child-abducting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: May 29, 2000 | 5/29/2000 | See Source »

Sierra Leone, admitted a top U.N. official last week, "is a perfect model for everything that can go wrong in a peacekeeping operation." It began when the merciless rebel leader Foday Sankoh adopted a singularly ruthless strategy: if you terrorize enough civilians--raping girls, mutilating children, burning houses--the world will eventually give you just about anything to stop the atrocities. By July 1999 the beastly killing spree had spurred Washington and London into brokering a flawed peace-at-any-price, handing Sankoh and his Revolutionary United Front amnesty, four seats in the government and control over the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When The Peace Cannot Be Kept | 5/22/2000 | See Source »

...Foday Sankoh's vanity emerges in the presence of photographers. He allows the cameras to come close and quite clearly holds an expression and a pose for the lens until the shoot is over. Then he gets back to sneering, throwing out the angriest of accusations even at his milder detractors. He can rant energetically for 15 minutes at a go, claiming his purported atrocities are concoctions of his enemies. "Pure fabrication" are words he repeats over and over, and he has nothing but disgust for nonmembers of his Revolutionary United Front...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Order to Kill Comes Softly | 5/22/2000 | See Source »

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