Sierra Leone : revolutionary united front
Venter, Al J.2018
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Sierra Leone's eleven-year guerrilla war - that left 200,000 people dead - was brief, bloody and mindlessly brutal. It was also the second African war in which mercenaries were hired to counter some of the worst atrocities that Africa had on offer. By the time it ended in 2002, several groups of mercenaries - including an air wing equipped with a pair of ageing Mi-24 helicopter gunships and backed by the British Army and the Royal Navy - played significant roles in quelling the bush rebellion. It was an idiosyncratic war, which started with the Foday Sankoh's Revolutionary United Front (RUF) chanting the slogan 'No more slaves, no more masters, power and wealth to the people' and ended with a series of battles for control for Sierra Leone's diamond mines in the interior. By then the Liberian tyrant Charles Taylor and Libya's Muammar Gadaffi were the prime movers for the rebel cause.
Main title:
Sierra Leone : revolutionary united front / Al J. Venter.
Author:
Imprint:
Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword Military, 2018.
Collation:
128 pages ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9781526728777 (pbk)152672877X (pbk)
Dewey class:
966.4044 VEN966.4044
LC class:
DT516.826
Language:
English
BRN:
330269