During Sierra Leone’s civil war ... Watch documented instances in which children recruited to the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) were compelled to commit abuses under threat of death or ...

"I decided just to leave." The prosecution for the United Nations–backed Special Court for Sierra Leone has accused Taylor of selling diamonds to finance the RUF. Koroma, now editor of an on ...

Most of the human rights organizations in Sierra Leone were relatively new and ... Faced with the gross atrocities committed by AFRC/RUF troops, many of the human rights organizations, like ...

The conditions include a radio and television apology to the victims of his crimes and to the people of Sierra Leone. Between 1991 and 2001, the RUF carried out a series of atrocities in order to ...