The Sierra Leonean Civil War (1991–2002) was a civil war in Sierra Leone that began on 23 March 1991 when the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), with support from the special forces of Liberian dictator Charles Taylor 's National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL), intervened in Sierra Leone in an attempt to overthrow the Joseph Momoh government.

2017年4月25日 · Civilians living in diamond mining zones were forcibly removed from their homes so that the RUF could maintain control over the mines. Many of the blood diamonds from Sierra Leone were traded to the Liberian president, Charles G. Taylor, in exchange for weapons and military training from the AFRC.

2017年1月16日 · The Sierra Leone Civil War was an armed conflict in the West African country of Sierra Leone from 1991 t0 2002. The war began on March 23, 1991, when the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) under Foday Sankoh, with support of Liberian rebel leader Charles Taylor and his group, the National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NFPL), attempted to overthrow ...

Panning for diamonds in Sierra Leone. Blood diamonds (also called conflict diamonds, brown diamonds, hot diamonds, or red diamonds) are diamonds mined in a war zone and sold to finance an insurgency, an invading army's war efforts, terrorism, or a warlord 's activity.

2002年12月6日 · By 1991, Sierra Leone had a corrupt government and openly illicit diamond trading and was a vulnerable and attractive site for armed rebellion. On March 23, a civil war began when the Revolutionary United Front, a group of 100 fighters from Sierra Leone and Liberia, invaded east Sierra Leone.

2003年3月17日 · Since 1991, Sankoh's Revolutionary United Front has tried to terrorize Sierra Leone into submission - often by cutting off the feet and hands of innocent children - in an effort to control the country's diamond trade.

2003年12月5日 · In Sierra Leone during the war from 1991 to 1999, the RUF rebel group performed one atrocity against humanity after another, including hacking off the limbs of innocent civilians and raping women.

2020年11月29日 · In 1930, a British geologist discovered diamonds in the region. The gems became one of the greatest sources of Sierra Leone’s future conflict, earning them the name “ Blood Diamonds.” British companies and other foreign merchants quickly seized control of diamond mines to profit from the newfound market.

Former RUF rebels have testified that they sought to control diamond-rich areas in eastern Sierra Leone because they needed the gems to finance their war. In 2000, UN investigators found that diamonds from RUF-controlled areas were smuggled out into Liberia and from there onto the international market as if they were Liberian diamonds.

2019年11月1日 · Drawing on extensive fieldwork with a paradigmatic “resource rebellion” – the former Revolutionary United Front of Sierra Leone – this paper identifies six key strategies and tactics armed groups can employ to manage resource wealth: resource rhetoric; destruction; looting; extraction/production; mortgaging; and taxation.