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 | | He was tried for treason and murder in the Sierra Leonean courts and sentenced to death in absentia. | | | In January 1996, Strasser was deposed in his turn in a bloodless coup and in February Ahmed Kabbah was elected president, raising hopes that the bloodshed might come to an end. | | | The death sentence on Sankoh was not carried out. |
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| | Sankoh was delighted by the intervention of the Rev Jesse Jackson in the negotiations, and even more so by a telephone call from President Clinton urging him to commit to peace. | | | He received a personal visit from secretary of state Madeleine Albright in Freetown as part of the coalition government in which he was vice-president and in control of the ministry running the all-important diamond mines. | | | In court appearances he wore dreadlocks, his beard untrimmed, and he appeared incoherent. |
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| | Sankoh appeared in handcuffs on Sierra Leone state television three days later and appealed to his men to respect a new cease-fire with Kabbah& government and the Nigerian ECOMOG troops supporting it. | | | As part of the Lomé Accord, Foday Sankoh, the death row prisoner released from jail at Jesse Jackson& urging, was made vice president of Sierra Leone. | | | On July 25, 1998, the Nigerian government returned RUF leader Foday Sankoh to Freetown, where President Kabbah declared he would stand trial for treason. |
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| | Foday Sankoh and his senior lieutenants need to be on notice that their personal responsibility for war crimes isn't abstract, that there will be practical consequences." | | | Sankoh be declared an outlaw and turned over to a criminal court? | | | Thus, diplomats said, the responsibility is on Sierra Leone, which holds the rebel leader prisoner, to make the first decisions on his future. |
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| | Sankoh sitting in the vehicle, surrounded by scowling young men, one of whom is gripping the rebel leader's neck in his fist. | | | Sankoh was accompanied by a lone bodyguard, who did not respond to the soldiers' orders to stop. | | | The soldier, a man named Mustapha "Black Scorpion" Kamara, returned to the house with five unarmed men and set an ambush. |
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| | Sankoh may well have been tempted to pinch himself last summer when he received a phone call from President Clinton urging him to accept a peace deal that Reverend Jesse Jackson had spent days cajoling him to sign. | | | The rebels were smashed and confined to small pockets of the country, the diamond fields secured and Foday Sankoh forced to the negotiating table to discuss allowing free elections. | | | It was yet another unlikely escape, and like his previous one -- in which he'd gone in less than a year from death row to the vice presidency -- it symbolized the ineptitude of international efforts to stop the war in Sierra Leone. |
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| | Neighbors Grab Fugitive Rebel in Sierra Leone |
| | Foday Sankoh, right, the Sierra Leone rebel leader, after his capture Wednesday at his house in Freetown. | | | Sankoh's capture ended days of intense speculation about his whereabouts, it immediately raised the issue of what to do with him. | | | In late 1998, after the current government sentenced Mr. |
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| | FODAY SAYBANA SANKOH, by his acts or omissions, is individually criminally responsible pursuant to Article 6.1. | | | of the Statute, FODAY SAYBANA SANKOH, while holding positions of superior responsibility and exercising command and control over his subordinates, is individually criminally responsible for the crimes referred to in Articles 2, 3 and 4 of the Statute. | | | At all times relevant to this Indictment FODAY SAYBANA SANKOH was the leader of the RUF and a senior leader within the AFRC/RUF alliance. |
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| | "Corporal Foday Sankoh was held in Nigeria by security forces for entering into the country with a pistol and ammunition," the ambassador said. | | | 27 March: Sierra Leone has not asked the Nigerian government to extradite deposed RUF leader Foday Sankoh, according to Attorney General Solomon Berewa. | | | He did not reveal the composition of the delegation, or how long it will remain in Abidjan. |
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| | There was no immediate word as to where Sankoh's flight originated, but the RUF leader attended the ECOWAS Heads of State and Government Summit in Lomé, Togo last week, and did not return to Freetown with the Sierra Leonean delegation. | | | The document, which was read by Justice Minister and Attorney-General Solomon Berewa, argued that the government had lived up to its commitments under the Accord, and said it was the RUF/RUFP which in many cases had created obstacles to the peace process. | | | A diplomatic source told the Sierra Leone Web that 13 of the 15 members of the Security Council were comfortable with U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan's proposal to increase the authorised strength of the peacekeeping force from 6,000 to 10,000. |
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| | He threw down the gauntlet and challenged his former comrades to return to RUF held territory to carry out their so-called decision to oust Sankoh whom he claimed to be still at the helm. | | | It probably sanctioned Sankoh's visit but the decision for him to be arrested or placed under house arrest was not theirs. | | | Sierra Leone's Foreign Minister, Mrs Shirley Gbujama, is said to have made a powerful plea, behind closed doors, to a select group of ministers, including the Nigerian Foreign Minister, the maverick Chief Tom Ikimi. |
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| | BBC NEWS World Africa Foday Sankoh: The cruel rebel |
| | With Sankoh already in prison, Alimamy Pallo Bangura, was its presidential candidate but he received just 1.7% of the vote and the RUFP did not gain a single seat in parliament. | | | During one court hearing last year, he continuously broke into unexplained fits of laughter and said he was "surprised that I am being tried because I am the leader of the world". | | | Mr Sankoh was captured after his rebels killed more than a dozen protesters outside his Freetown home and he had been in UN custody in prisons and hospitals since. |
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| | Transcript: State Department Noon Briefing, May 17, 2000 |
| | Prospects for Rev. Jackson to Meet With Foday Sankoh | | | Q: Is there any planned possibility of Reverend Jackson meeting with Foday Sankoh? | | | Q: What if Sankoh wants to meet with Jackson? |
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| | The court last week rejected an appeal to have Sankoh's trial halted on health grounds, despite signs that his mental state had been profoundly altered by his stroke last year. | | | At his last appearance in court on March 15, the former rebel leader appeared incapable of speaking at all. | | | A court doctor said he was partially paralysed and needed psychiatric treatment, describing Sankoh as being in a "catatonic state". |
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| | Sierra Leone: A Nation Collapses |
| | Ahmed Tejan Kabbah (right) and rebel leader Foday Sankoh at a dinner for heads of state in Lome, Togo, on July 6, 1999. | | | Sankoh’s capture has increased speculation about the fate of the remaining hostages. | | | THE VICIOUS NINE-YEAR civil war in Sierra Leone has left this West African nation a state in name only. |
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| | Rebel Foday Sankoh Dies in Sierra Leone |
| | Sankoh's rebel group stood candidates for parliament, but received no seats. | | | In June 2002, in one of his last court hearings in which he spoke, the rebel leader appeared disheveled, his hair in matted white dreadlocks. | | | The court's acting chief of defense, John Jones, said then that Sankoh was in a "catatonic, stuporous state." |
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| | Foday Sankoh: Sierra Leone's Rebel with a Cause |
| | After losing his job as a TV camerman for his anti-government views, Sankoh was briefly imprisoned. | | | He later went to Liberia, where he joined forces with another young charismatic—and ruthless revolutionary leader—Charles Taylor, who became president of his country after a brutal civil war. | | | Sankoh began his political career in the 1970s, as a critic of widespread corruption. |
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| | Sierra Leone - Ahmed Foday Sankoh and the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) |
| | With the July 1999 treaty in the books, Foday's enjoying another 15 minutes in the sun as a ranking member of Kabbah's cabinet. | | | The guy commutes regularly between death row and a red carpet. | | | But when the Nigerians found out, they hustled him from his five star suite at the Abuja Sheraton to house arrest in a neighborhood said to also be the upscale holding pen for Moshood Abiola the democratically elected but jailed president of Nigeria. |
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| | Officers from the Criminal Investigation Department arrested Kouyateh, acting editor of the private weekly Wisdom Newspaper, at his office and drove him to the central police station in Freetown. | | | In May, the government of President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah arrested Abdoul Kouyateh, acting editor of the private weekly Wisdom, for allegedly endangering state security by requesting an interview with Sankoh. | | | The paper appeared to be a note to Sankoh from his secretary, stating that Kouyateh had asked for an interview. |
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| | Guardian Unlimited Special reports Who is Foday Sankoh? |
| | He is an improbable politician, let alone national leader. | | | On the day that British paratroopers captured the leader of the Revolutionary United Front, Derek Brown asks how Foday Sankoh came to lead the rebel forces in Sierra Leone | | | Sankoh, reported to have found a new faith in God, had been captured and sentenced to death. |
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| | Foday Sankoh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | It is here that he met Charles Taylor, future president of Liberia and Sankoh's financial benefactor and ally throughout the civil war. | | | Sankoh was later arrested after his soldiers gunned down a number of protesters outside his Freetown home in 2000. | | | Foday Sankoh (October 17, 1937 - July 29, 2003) was a leader of the Sierra Leone rebel faction Revolutionary United Front (RUF) in the 10-year-long Sierra Leonean civil war, which ended in 2002. |
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| | TIME.com: Sankoh a Hot Potato in Government Hands -- Page 1 |
| | Last time around, Sankoh used the ability of his forces to brutalize the long-suffering Sierra Leoneans to parlay his way from death row into government. | | | The capture of Sierra Leone rebel leader while his men still hold 350 U.N. hostages leaves authorities facing a dilemma | | | This time, his bargaining chip is likely to be 350 hapless U.N. peacekeepers. |
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| | Q:Have you been briefed by the government as to the circumstances leading to Foday Sankoh's arrest? | | | Will you feel happy to sit on the table with a criminal knowing that criminals usually have criminal tendencies and hope the Lome peace accord will succeed ? | | | Q: The United Nations is pressing that the government of Sierra Leone should have faith in the Lome Peace Agreement but taken into consideration the fact that Sankoh has committed an offence that is punishable by death if found guilty by the courts of Sierra Leone. |
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| | In brief intoduction, I am foday sankoh(JNR)(28 years old) the son of Foday Sankoh the former vice president to president Tijan Kabba of Sierra leone. | | | It is with great pleasure and deep sence of need that I am writing you this letter.Though I can not boast of knowing you, I got your contact through the office of ivoireac chember of comerce believing that God will touch your heart to help me and my sister. |
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| | Blog of Death: Foday Sankoh |
| | In 2000, Sankoh was captured outside his Freetown home by pro-government troops, and the RUF was disbanded. | | | Foday Saybana Sankoh, the rebel leader who instigated a decade of civil war in Sierra Leone, died on July 29 from natural causes. | | | Sankoh served seven years in prison for his part in the insurgence, then went to Libya to train in the guerrilla camps with a group of exiles. |
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| | Few in Africa—or, indeed, the rest of the world—will mourn the death of Foday Sankoh, the ruthless Sierra Leonean rebel leader who died on July 29 in a Freetown hospital at age 65. | | | Sankoh would then sit back and watch as his fellow countrymen died a slow and painful death. | | | Upon his death, one observer remarked, “he has been granted the peaceful end that he denied to so many others.” |
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| | Sankoh was moved from the Sierra Leone Special Court detention center to the Freetown hospital following a stroke. | | | The court's chief prosecutor, American David Crane, said Sankoh's death from natural causes granted him "a peaceful end that he denied to so many others." | | | Foday Sankoh, 65, died at Choithrams Hospital in Freetown where he was undergoing medical treatment after being indicted on 17 counts of crimes against humanity. |
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| | When asked if Sankoh's court appearance would jeporadise the peace process, Berewa replied, "I really don't think so." President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah formally declared that the war was over in January. | | | SIERRA LEONE: Rebel leader Foday Sankoh charged with murder | | | ABIDJAN, 4 Mar 2002 (IRIN) - Former rebels of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), including its leader, Foday Sankoh, appeared in court in Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, on Monday on various criminal charges including murder, news organisations reported. |
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| | After his stroke, an appeal was made for Mr. | | | Sankoh was a compatriot of Liberian president, Charles Taylor. | | | Foday Sankoh was once a powerful and greatly feared man. He founded the rebel group, the Revolutionary United Front, in 1991, which led a barbaric campaign to oust Sierra Leone's elected government. |
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| | Sankoh's acts have led Nigeria's Nobel Prize-winning poet, Wole Soyinka, to ask "What new kind of monster has been born in Africa?" Two failed peace agreements tried to turn Foday Sankoh into a democrat. | | | Dispatching captured Rebel United Front (RUF) leader Foday Sankoh, now in government custody, is the first order of business. | | | Ideally, the democratically elected government of Sierra Leone would undertake this effort. |
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| | Fair Trial Urged for Rebel Leader Sankoh (Human Rights Watch, 17-5-2000) |
| | Human Rights Watch urged today that the Sierra Leonean leader Foday Sankoh should receive a fair trial for his crimes. | | | But that evidence should be carefully compiled and presented in a court of law. | | | There is a good case against him, but it must be presented soberly and carefully, before impartial judges. |
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| | Sierra Leone: Foday Sankoh's death will not diminish the Special Court's role in ending impunity | | | Foday Sankoh, former leader of the armed opposition Revolutionary United Front, was indicted by the Special Court for Sierra Leone in March 2003 for war crimes, crimes against humanity and other serious violations of international humanitarian law. | | | ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Sierra Leone: Foday Sankoh's death will not diminish the Special Court's role in ending impunity |
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| | "This morning we were in the compound here and we heard a shout that Foday Sankoh had been captured. | | | They said that Koroma loyalists intervened to ensure his protection. | | | Foday Sankoh, who was last seen on May 8 during a shootout at his home, was taken to the compound of former military ruler Johnny Paul Koroma before being transferred to Cockerill Barracks, one witness said. |
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| | Those who have met the tubby leader of the Revolutionary United Front, Foday Sankoh, remark on his charismatic, ebullient character. | | | Mr Sankoh emerged out of the student movement in the 1970s, serving as an army corporal and later a TV cameraman before being sacked and briefly imprisoned for his anti-establishment politics. | | | They pinpoint this as a key factor behind his ability to rally thousands of impoverished youths behind his rebellion against the wealthy Freetown political class. |
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| | Peace Never Had A Chance In Sierra Leone Under the Lome Agreement |
| | Even though the Lome mediators touted respect for human rights and humanitarian laws, popular participation and democratic governance, they showed their true colors by putting Sankoh and his like in power. | | | Foday Sankoh was given the status of vice president. | | | For example, the 1996 Abuja Accord II on Liberia, worked out by the same leaders, stipulated that warring faction leaders, who did not cooperate or who violated the accord, would be prosecuted for war crimes and crimes against humanity, and not be allowed to participate in the elections. |
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| | Both parties agree inter alia that immediately following signing of the Agreement the RUF shall commence to function as a political movement and to register as a political movement; that Government shall ensure that no official or judicial action is taken against any RUF member. | | | RUF leader Foday Sankoh refuses to meet with members of the Commission for the Consolidation of Peace. | | | Commission for the Consolidation of Peace returns to Freetown from Abidjan without meeting RUF leader Foday Sankoh. |
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| | Then he was found hiding in his own house and was arrested. | | | Foday Sankoh disappeared for several days after his soldiers shot at demonstrators outside his residence, killing several people. | | | The report comes after the arrest of the RUF leader, Foday Sankoh, by British troops and forces loyal to the government of Sierra Leone. |
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| | Former Sierra Leonean rebel leader, indicted war criminal Foday Sankoh dies | | | Sankoh, leader of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), whose indictment in March was welcomed by the court prosecutor as an end to “the dark days of the rule of the gun,” died in Choithram Hospital in Freetown, the Sierra Leonean capital, where he had been receiving medical treatment and was under 24 hour observation. | | | – Former rebel leader Foday Sankoh, indicted by the Special Court for Sierra Leone for war crimes committed during 10 years of brutal conflict, atrocities and human rights violations in the West African country, died last night, the court registrar announced today. |
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| | SIERRA LEONE: Foday Sankoh fails to appear in court | | | The court was also told that one of Sankoh's co-defendants, 31-year-old Osman Conteh, had died in custody on 27 August. | | | The trial of Sankoh and 49 co-accused from the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) was adjourned until 8 October to allow the government prosecutor a two-week break and for Sankoh to be brought to court, news agencies reported. |
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| | Foday Sankoh News - The New York Times | | | World Briefing: Africa; SIERRA LEONE: REBEL LEADER BARRED FROM ELECTION | | | Sierra Leone charges rebel leader Foday Sankoh with murder for his role during civil war; photo |
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| | Sankoh and his RUF forces have been fighting the government for the last eight years. | | | Sankoh disappeared from his home in Freetown last week after a mob of 5,000 people marched to his home and started throwing rocks and bricks. | | | Members of Sankoh's Revolutionary United Front freed 80 more hostages Wednesday. |
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| | In July 1999, Sankoh and his Revolutionary United Front (RUF) signed a peace accord which granted rebels blanket amnesty for their atrocities. | | | Sankoh, who is believed to be around 70 years old, launched a bush war in 1991, claiming to fight against state-sponsored poverty and corruption. | | | Sankoh, who has been in custody since May, reportedly took ill some three weeks ago and his condition has been described as "critical". |
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| | He went on to state that the last time he saw Sankoh was in April this year. | | | Delivering his key note address, the Executive Director of OHDRAD, Foday Kalokoh, said the items were sent by SLADRA, a group of Sierra Leoneans based in the United Kingdom, adding that his organisation had been doing well to assist the disabled, amputees and war wounded. | | | The government press release came against the background of persistent newspaper reports that Corporal Foday Sankoh was very ill. Some went as far as stating that the rebel leader was almost at the point of death. |
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| | Foday Sankoh, as leader of the RUF, is known to have responsibility for serious crimes against humanity. | | | Also for the UN special court, which is due to be set up in Sierra Leone's capital later this year, a release of the top war crimes responsible would mean a serious setback. | | | Also Sierra Leone's envoy to the United Nations, Allieu Ibrahim Kanu, raised doubt about the possibility of releasing Sankoh. |
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| | He has also intensified warnings against the planned trial of Foday Sankoh, a man with whom he trained in Libya and who fought along side his NPFL forces during the Liberian war. | | | When the UN reminded Pretoria that there was a travel embargo on one of Africa's most insane killers, they revoked his visa, insisting that the document issued to him by their Abidjan mission was "a mistake." It seems "mistakes" have become official policy in crumbling Africa. | | | If the kidnappers would allow Chairman Sankoh to speak, I am confident that he would reveal political treachery, incompetence and bankruptcy in Sierra Leone". |
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| | Sankoh, whose whereabouts had been unknown for the past 10 days, leading to rumours that he was dead, was initially taken to barracks in Freetown but was whisked away after it was surrounded by a mob of thousands baying for his blood. | | | Despite Mr Cook’s words, a senior official in the neighbouring Liberia said efforts to free the UN peace-keepers would be complicated by the arrest of Sankoh. | | | Liberian President Charles Taylor helped negotiate the release of at least 139 peacekeepers earlier this week, and his spokesman, Reginald Goodridge, said the release of the remainder and the whole peace process in Sierra Leone could now be endangered. |
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| | That you, Cpl. FODAY SAYBANA SANKOH on a day unknown between the 1st day of January, 1997 and the 13th day of February, 1998 outside Sierra Leone endeavoured to overthrow the Government of Sierra Leone by unlawful means. | | | That you, Cpl. FODAY SAYBANA SANKOH on a day unknown between the 1st day of January, 1997 and the 13th day of February, 1998 outside Sierra Leone incited members of a rebel organisation, the RUF to invade Sierra Leone with armed force. | | | That you, Cpl. FODAY SAYBANA SANKOH on a day unknown between the 1st day of January, 1997 and the 13th day of February, 1998 outside Sierra Leone assisted members of a rebel organisation the RUF unlawfully to invade Sierra Leone by land. |
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