Foday went the way of Uday & Husay.
What's missing from the story is that Foday also trained in Khadafi's Libya.
Posted on 08/03/2003 5:53:44 AM PDT by Pikamax
Angry Sierra Leoneans jeer Sankoh's body August 02, 2003, 09:27 PM
Hundreds of angry Sierra Leoneans turned out in the capital Freetown today to jeer the body of former rebel leader Foday Sankoh, a man reviled for launching one of Africa's most horrific wars. "Take his body to hell or give it to us, the crowd, to burn his body to ashes," shouted Dowu Johnson, a woman in the crowd.
The former warlord, who had been indicted for war crimes by a UN-backed court investigating atrocities during the West African nation's decade-long civil war, died in hospital on Tuesday. His body, wrapped in a white sheet and surrounded by heavily armed paramilitary police, was taken from a blue police van and carried into Central Hospital Connaught in the capital Freetown, as hundreds of people watched. "They should have removed the white cloth from his body so that the public can see his corpse," said Isatu Sesay (13). "We pray (that) the good Lord deal with this devilish human being," she said.
A post-mortem examination carried out in the hospital found Sankoh died from respiratory failure due to a pulmonary embolism, the UN-backed court said in a statement. The court said Sankoh's body had been released to members of his family and was due to be buried tomorrow. Sankoh (66) led the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebels who terrorised civilians during the war. RUF rebels killed, raped women and children, and hacked off limbs, ears and noses.
A born-again Christian, Sankoh had been in jail since May 2000. In March, he was handed over to the Sierra Leone-based court, and charged with crimes against humanity, including murder, rape, sexual slavery and extermination. At his first appearance at the court in March, Sankoh sat in a wheelchair, his head slumped on his chest, his right leg shaking constantly and his grey hair twisted into dreadlocks. A psychiatrist who examined him described him as catatonic.
Sankoh started Sierra Leone's war in 1991 and some 50 000 people were killed in the following 10 years. A former army corporal and radio operator, Sankoh was trained in Libya's guerrilla camps, like Charles Taylor, the President of neighbouring Liberia. Taylor has also been indicted by the court for backing Sankoh's rebels with guns in return for diamonds. Sierra Leone's war was declared over in January last year after UN troops disarmed 47 000 fighters. - Reuters
Gratuitous Reuters smack... you'd think even they would realize this guy was a bit vague on the concept.
Foday went the way of Uday & Husay.
What's missing from the story is that Foday also trained in Khadafi's Libya.
The man is a fake, Reuters has an agenda.
Business as usual in black African "republics". I am sure soon we will be told that the US needs to send in troops to stop the unrest in Sierra Leone.
D'oh!
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