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...belonged in an international war crimes tribunal, Sankoh found himself suddenly elevated into government, even receiving a personal visit in Freetown from Secretary of State Madeleine Albright last October to encourage him to keep the peace. But the international community failed to read the glaring signs that the RUF had no intention of laying down the weapons that were the source of their political and economic power. "General Mosquito" Bokarie, the rebels' chief field commander, chastised Sankoh for making peace, ordered his men to hold onto their weapons, and warned the U.N. troops who'd come to disarm them...
...once again Sankoh appears to have confounded his foes. The U.N. forces are scrambling to defend Freetown and find a way of freeing the 500-odd peacekeeping troops still in the hands of the RUF. The peace agreement they were meant to police is no more than a bit of litter on the floor of Sankoh's trashed house (where a New York Times reporter found an original, signed copy after the rebel leader had fled) and the international forces are scrambling to organize defenses to stave off a rebel assault on the capital. Britain, the country's former colonizer...
...current situation has the country divided into regions: the elected government controls Freetown, the capital, and the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) controls large territories to the north and east. The RUF has repeatedly violated a U.N. peace accord which would have allowed peacekeepers to freely travel through the country...
This week RUF forces have killed 7 U.N. peacekeepers and kidnapped 500. The RUF is no stranger to violence, as they have become a group notorious for flagrant human rights abuse. To intervene in the growing conflict and human rights violations, the United Nations sent an envoy of peacekeepers to enforce a peace accord between the rebels and the government signed last year. But the effort has been largely unsuccessful and has cast further doubt on the efficacy of U.N. peacekeeping methods...
...RUF has become infamous in the past year for recently revealed human rights abuses. Fueled by a diamond smuggling operation, the RUF has forced natives to hunt for diamonds. The RUF has stormed civilian villages and amputated legs and arms of civilian men who are prominent in the community...