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| | Attorney General of the United States - encyclopedia article about Attorney General of the United States. |
 | | United States Department of Justice (DOJ) is a Cabinet department in the United States government designed to enforce the law and defend the interests of the United States according to the law and to ensure fair and impartial administration of justice for all Americans. | | | The Court consists of the Chief Justice of the United States and eight Associate Justices, who are nominated by the President and confirmed with the "advice and consent" of the Senate. | | | The Solicitor General works within the United States Department of Justice; he or she is nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate. |
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| | [20 Aug 1999] SC/6714 : SECURITY COUNCIL EXPANDS ROLE OF UNITED NATIONS IN SIERRA LEONE; MORE MILITARY PERSONNEL TO ... |
| | He said that like most delegations, his was concerned about the blanket amnesty granted to the Revolutionary United Front. | | | It was hoped that the Commission of Inquiry recommended by the High Commissioner for Human Rights, and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission foreseen in the Lomé accord, would help bring forward the day when the people of Sierra Leone could confidently expect peace with justice. | | | ALFRED MOUNGARA-MOUSSOTSI (Gabon) said his delegation was aware of the major challenges that lay ahead for the final normalization of the situation in Sierra Leone. |
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http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/1999/19990820.sc6714.html
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| | Revolutionary United Front (RUF) |
| | Before the elections could be held, however, the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) attacked. | | | But the penalty for not collaborating with the RUF was as severe, or worse. | | | On 21 March 2003, after receiving an initial psychiatric report on the leader of the rebel Revolutionary United Front (RUF) Foday Saybana Sankoh, Special Court Judge Benjamin M. Itoe called for further psychiatric examinations. |
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| | Africa: Country Report |
| | The Lomé agreement consolidated a May 24 cease-fire and turned the RUF into a political party, granting it four cabinet posts (one of them senior) and four deputy ministerial positions. | | | Swaray was reportedly arrested on the order of a High Court judge, Rashid Tarawallie, who also happened to be his uncle, with whom he was living at the time. | | | Stewart, the Abidjan-based AP bureau chief, who was also in the vehicle, was shot in the head and wounded. |
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| | Liberia -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | The government was modeled on that of the United States, and Monrovia, the capital and principal port, was named after... | | | This influence has its origins in the efforts of the American Colonization Society to settle freed American slaves in Africa beginning in 1822. | | | A small country on the west coast of Africa, Liberia has been influenced in many ways by the United States. |
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| | Arming the Revolutionary United Front: African Security Review Vol 10 No 1 |
| | Sankoh accepted and Koroma also appointed several RUF officials to his government. | | | The week before the elections in 1996, representatives of Maada Bio and Sankoh began peace talks in Côte d’Ivoire with Sankoh claiming that he would only negotiate with Maada Bio and would not recognise the outcome of the elections. | | | Unable to defeat the RUF, the focus shifted to diplomatic solutions. |
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| | Sierra Leone - Worldpress.org |
| | Former army corporal Foday Sankoh and his Revolutionary United Front (RUF) begin campaign against President Momoh, capturing towns on border with Liberia. | | | Why is it that Britain—and you know that at one point [the year 2000] Britain had 5,500 [peacekeeping] troops there—why is it that they are pushing for elections now? | | | 1997 October - The United Nations Security Council imposes sanctions against Sierra Leone, barring the supply of arms and petroleum products. |
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| | Human Rights Watch: Africa : Sierra Leone |
| | In a letter to the members of the United Nations Security Council, Human Rights Watch urged decisive action to bring war criminals in Sierra Leone to justice. | | | Letter to United Nations Security Council on Sierra Leone | | | A Call for Justice: Photographs of Sierra Leone |
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| | Encyclopedia: Milton Margai |
| | Born in the town of Gbangbatoke, he attended medical school in the United Kingdom, then returned to Sierra Leone in 1928 to work for the colonial administration. | | | In 1949 he founded the nationalist Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP), which won the 1951 election to the Legislative Council. |
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| | Ambassador Cunningham: Statement in the Security Council on Sierra Leone, May 11, 2000 |
| | We welcome the decision reached in Abuja to convene a special meeting of ECOWAS defense ministers on May 17 to consider the practical modalities should ECOMOG forces renew their involvement in Sierra Leone. | | | Statement by Ambassador James B. Cunningham, U.S. Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations, UN Security Council Emergency Open Meeting on Sierra Leone, May 11, 2000 | | | The United States calls on the RUF immediately to release all detainees, cease all military operations, comply with their commitments under the Lome Peace Agreement, and respect all applicable norms of international human rights and humanitarian law. |
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| | May 17, 2000-International: International diamond firms alledged to be illegally funding Sierra Leone's Revolutionary ... |
| | Revolutionary United Front leader Foday Sankoh - who during the country's short-lived peace was put in charge of a commission regulating mineral policy - tried to trade or sell gems abroad for his own enrichment and to fund his rebel movement, said the minister, Solomon Berewa, who is also the attorney general. | | | Pro-government forces and the United Nations had managed to restore relative calm in the capital, Freetown, by Saturday. | | | FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) - The feared rebel leader who restarted Sierra Leone's civil war this month has been striking illegal deals with international diamond firms in return for military equipment and other supplies, the justice minister said last Saturday. |
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| | State House - Freetown, Sierra Leone |
| | This has made the Revolutionary United Front feel not wanted. | | | We are committed to the return and consolidation of lasting pence with all parties, including the Revolutionary United Front and the Kamajors. | | | The James Currey United Nations&; Audit Report of 19971, thirty years later, has also implicated Mr. |
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| | Last U.N. Troops Pack to Leave Sierra Leone as Mandate Expires - New York Times |
| | Fighting ended here in 2002 and elections that year led to the United Nations-guarded peace. | | | Coup leaders who toppled an elected government in 1997 and allied themselves with the rebels were ousted by a Nigerian-led military force in 1998. | | | The Revolutionary United Front, which said its goal was to liberate the people from a corrupt government, set off the war by battling to control the diamond fields of the east. |
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/02/international/africa/02sierra.html?ex=1136782800&en=dcd26d1c183b62da&ei=5040&partner=MOREOVERNEWS
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| | AllRefer.com - Sierra Leone: Introduction & Country Profile |
| | National elections were held in May 2002 and the government continues to slowly reestablish its authority. | | | Since 1991, civil war between the government and the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths and the displacement of more than 2 million people (well over one-third of the population), many of whom are now refugees in neighboring countries. | | | After several setbacks, the end to the 11-year conflict in Sierra Leone may finally be near at hand. |
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| | BBC NEWS World Africa Foday Sankoh: The cruel rebel |
| | The RUF became a political party and contested the elections held just months later. | | | This was regarded as a key factor behind his ability to rally thousands of impoverished youths behind his rebellion against the wealthy Freetown political class. | | | Those who met the tubby RUF leader before his 2000 arrest and subsequent stroke spoke of the charismatic, ebullient character of the man known to his fighters as "Popay" or "Papa". |
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| | Whereas the Revolutionary United Front in Sierra Leone is not a legitimate political movement, entity, or party; | | | Whereas the Revolutionary United Front has abducted civilians, missionaries, humanitarian aid workers, United Nations peacekeepers, and journalists; | | | (3) the United States Government should not provide incentives of any kind to regional supporters of the Revolutionary United Front until all support from them to the Revolutionary United Front has ceased. |
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| | Security Council Committee on Liberia Revises List of Revolutionary United Front Members |
| | Ibrahim BAH - President Compaore's Advisor on the RUF. | | | Security Council Committee on Liberia Revises List of Revolutionary United Front Members | | | NEW YORK, 30 June (UN Headquarters) -- On 25 June 2003, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1343 (2001) concerning Liberia approved the removal of two persons, reportedly deceased, from the list of members of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) subject to the measures contained in paragraph 2(a) of the resolution. |
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| | Thousands Flee to Sierra Leone Capital as War Looms |
| | As the confusion intensified, the whereabouts of Foday Sankoh, the leader of the Revolutionary United Front, remained unclear. | | | Abraham, whose hands were hacked off by the Revolutionary United Front during an attack on Waterloo in January 1999, was carrying a large nylon bag on his head, steadying it with the stumps of his arms. | | | As civilians streamed toward the capital, which remained under the control of an embattled United Nations force, vehicles filled with pro-government militiamen rumbled away from town, toward the fighting with the Revolutionary United Front. |
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| | A double amputee, whose hands were hacked off by members of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) during their January offensive to take the capital Liberty, leans his head down as a man who lost his leg walks by. | | | : This twenty-three-year-old man was tortured by RUF soldiers on | | | This girl was one of three people within the same family to have both hands hacked off by the Revolutionary United Front. |
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| | BBC NEWS World Africa Brutal child army grows up |
| | In May 1997, the RUF joined forces with a group of junior army soldiers, to overthrow the elected government of President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah. | | | Far from being a puppet offshoot of the Liberian factions, the RUF took on a life of its own and fought successive Sierra Leonean governments. | | | Foday Sankoh, known as Papa by his followers |
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| | Foreigners Leaving Sierra Leone; More Troops Missing |
| | Foday Sankoh, the leader of the Revolutionary United Front, has steadfastly denied his organization's involvement in the kidnappings and the deaths of at least four Kenyan peacekeepers, accusing the United Nations of causing clashes after trying to force some of his men to lay down their weapons. | | | But the warring parties, and the Revolutionary United Front in particular, refused to do so at several camps across the country. | | | The United States, France and Britain, the former colonial power, have said they will not send ground troops, though they are considering technical and logistical help. |
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| | HRW - Letter to Leader of the Revolutionary United Front (Human Rights Watch, 3-5-1999) |
| | HRW - Letter to Leader of the Revolutionary United Front | | | Human Rights Watch would like to commend the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) on its recent efforts, in conjunction with UNICEF and the Economic Community of West African States Monitoring Group (ECOMOG), to demobilize children who had been abducted. | | | As the RUF prepares for upcoming peace negotiations with the Government of Sierra Leone, Human Rights Watch calls on the RUF to take human rights concerns into consideration, to continue to release abducted children, to demobilize all children within its ranks, and to stop recruiting children. |
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| | MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base |
| | After this, RUF announced a cease-fire and accepted peace talks with President Kabbah. | | | Disarmament of RUF rebels began in May 2001, and the war was officially declared over in January 2002, essentially the end of the RUF. | | | The Revolutionary United Front (RUF) formed out of this desperation, yet its murderous tactics have long since overshadowed its founding ideologies. |
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| | Footpaths to Democracy - Revolutionary United Front of Sierra Leone - Sierra Leone Web |
| | As stated clearly in the Basic Document of the Revolutionary United Front of Sierra Leone (RUF/SL): The Second Liberation of Africa, prepared in 1989: | | | Every citizen in the liberated zone is made responsible for the security of the zone by the formation of a civil defense unit. | | | We herein appeal to the United Nations Security Council to seize itself of the grave matter of the spread of small arms and the planting of anti-personnel mines. |
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| | The Revolutionary United Front |
| | --Foday Saybana Sankoh, leader of the RUF candidate for Sierra Leone's Presidency | | | The Revolutionary United Front is a group of rebels fighting against what they see as a corrupt and oppressive government--the Sierra Leone People's Party. | | | In March of 1991, the RUF began launching a military campaign against the government of Sierra Leone. |
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| | Revolutionary United Front Party (RUFP) |
| | Sierra Leonean political party created from the RUF | | | Please fill in the Revolutionary United Front Party update form. | | | You may know more than us about the Revolutionary United Front Party |
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| | M2 Presswire: Security Council extends mandate of Sierra Leone mission until 31 March, unanimously adopting resolution ... |
| | Expressing its concern at the continuing fragile situation in Sierra Leone and neighbouring States, the Security Council this morning decided to extend the current mandate of the United Nations Mission In Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) until 31 March 2001. | | | Security Council extends mandate of Sierra Leone mission until 31 March, unanimously adopting resolution 1334 (2000); Calls on revolutionary united front to demonstrate commitment to 10 November ceasefire signed in Abuja, Nigeria. | | | M2 Presswire: Security Council extends mandate of Sierra Leone mission until 31 March, unanimously adopting resolution 1334 (2000); Calls on revolutionary united front to demonstrate commitment to 10 November ceasefire signed in Abuja, Nigeria.@ HighBeam Research |
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| | Revolutionary United Front Party - 2002 - Sierra Leone Web |
| | Permanent Representative to the United Nations under the NPRC. | | | Profile: 1999-2000 Minister of Lands, Housing, Country Planning and the Environment. | | | Revolutionary United Front Party - 2002 - Sierra Leone Web |
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| | Link to this definition of revolutionary united front |
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| | revolutionary united front - OneLook Dictionary Search |
| | Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "revolutionary united front" is defined. | | | We found 3 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word revolutionary united front: |
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| | USATODAY.com - Three ex-military commanders face 18-count joint indictment |
| | The three former military commanders of the Revolutionary United Front are accused as primary culprits in their movement's 1991-2002 battle to take control of Sierra Leone and its diamond fields. | | | About 250 Revolutionary United Front fighters launched the invasion from Liberia, supported by Taylor's forces and Libyan special forces, Crane said. | | | Sierra Leone's war began with a Feb. 27, 1991, planning session in Gbarnga, Liberia, Taylor's base, Crane alleged. |
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| | [07 Jul 1999] SG/SM/7063 AFR/152: SECRETARY-GENERAL WARMLY WELCOMES SIGNING OF PEACE AGREEMENT BETWEEN GOVERNMENT OF ... |
| | He now calls on the parties to the peace accord to honour their commitments, and he offers the vigilant support of the United Nations in their efforts at reconciliation and rebuilding. | | | The Secretary-General warmly welcomes the signing today of a peace agreement between the Government of Sierra Leone and the Revolutionary United Front of Sierra Leone, ending years of brutal and painful warfare. | | | The following statement was issued today by the Office of the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan: |
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| | CNN NEWSROOM Guide for May 16, 2000 -- Text-Only Version |
| | When and why did the Revolutionary United Front rebelstake more than 500 members of a U.N. force into custody? | | | Why do you think the RUF freed 139 of the U.N. hostages? | | | How do these U.N. forces differ from national armies? |
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| | trackingthethreat.com |
| | Search Yahoo News for Revolutionary United Front (RUF) | | | Search Google News for Revolutionary United Front (RUF) | | | Use this section to perform additional searches on the current entity using other open source resources. |
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| | The World Factbook 2004 -- Field Listing - Disputes - international |
| | major border incursions from Revolutionary United Front combatants from Sierra Leone, dissident Guinean forces, Liberian Army, and mercenaries between September 2000 and March 2001 killed over 1,500 Guinean civilians and military personnel; the borders remain mostly sealed | | | part of southeastern region claimed by Libya; Algeria supports exiled West Saharan Polisario Front and rejects Moroccan administration of Western Sahara | | | Senegalese separatists disrupt legal border trade with smuggling, cattle rustling, and other illegal activities |
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