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Article: The High Cost Of 'Cheap' Peace.(strife in Sierra Leone)(Brief Article)
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- Newsweek International
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- May 22, 2000
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In the Spring of 1999, Foday Sankoh, the leader of Sierra Leone's brutal Revolutionary United Front, had at last been brought to the dock. Extradited by the Nigerian government, the cashiered army corporal was locked in a cell in the wretched Pademba Road prison in Freetown, facing a death sentence for high treason. The rebel force he commanded, which had terrorized Sierra Leone's population for nearly a decade, had been driven out of the capital. A Nigerian-led peacekeeping force had re-established order in the city, while the rebels controlled much of the countryside.
But a few months later, Sankoh was free--the result of a misguided peace accord brokered by ...
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