Revolutionary United Front

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• The Revolutionary United Front was responsible for many atrocities during the civil war in Sierra Leone.

• Much of the current situation in Sierra Leone is linked to events in Liberia and to the relationship forged between Charles Taylor, a former Liberian warlord and current president, and Foday Sankoh, founder of the Revolutionary United Front.

  Academic text (2001)

• The first two describe how the Lord's Resistance Army in Northern Uganda and the Revolutionary United Front in Sierra Leone abduct children for use as child soldiers.

  Academic text (2001)

• 3 Peace Agreement between the Government of Sierra Leone and the Revolutionary United Front of Sierra Leone, hereinafter the Lome Agreement (signed 7 July 1999) preamble.

  Academic text (2001)

• In May 1995, the government of Sierra Leone contracted with Executive Outcomes, a South Africa-based private military company that provides direct combat support (and officially ceased operations on 31 December 1998), to assist in quelling the rebel movement led by the Revolutionary United Front.

  Academic text (2001)

• Another positive occurrence, which hopefully will become a trend, has been the recent large-scale release of child soldiers by the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) that took place in Sudan in February 2001 and later by the Revolutionary United Front in Sierra Leone in April.

  Academic text (2001)

• During the 1990s, the Revolutionary United Front engaged in brutal tactics to gain control of diamond mines.

• The activities of the Revolutionary United Front drew international condemnation for their human rights violations.

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A rebel group from Sierra Leone known for fighting the government and harming ordinary people

is the full formal name written out rather than shortened

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