RUF

Writer James Traub related a conversation on The Daily Beast with Annabi after the UN Security Council in 2000 decided to send thousands of troops to keep a psychotic band of rebels known as the RUF from toppling the Sierra Leone government.

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He testified that in 1998, Sam Bockarie, a leader of a rebel group called the RUF, turned up in new fatigues and a jeep, saying he was just back from Liberia and "had been promoted by the chief, Charles Taylor, to the rank of a general."

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The RUF was the main force behind Sierra Leone's war, among the most gruesome in modern history, which left some 120,000 dead and thousands more without arms or legs, ears or noses.

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The Niger trial used the therapeutic version of an RUF which is a relatively expensive product.

Doctors Without Borders

I'm still having a time sinking in to this "Indelible Grace" and / or "RUF" stuff that we're doing.

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The Prosecutor alleges that Mr. Taylor bears individual criminal responsibility for the crimes on the basis that he allegedly participated in the commission of the crimes by planning, instigating, and ordering them; aiding and abetting them by providing military training and support to the RUF and AFRC; and participating in the execution of a plan to take control of Sierra Leone during which the crimes were committed.

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Charles Taylor created the RUF on his territory, Kumjian said.

Charles Taylor Defense Says War Crimes Trial Politically Motivated

His forces led the RUF into Sierra Leone in March 1991.

Charles Taylor Defense Says War Crimes Trial Politically Motivated

He used his proxy RUF army in Liberia to fight against his enemies there.

Charles Taylor Defense Says War Crimes Trial Politically Motivated

Taylor pled not guilty to 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity for his alleged support of Sierra Leonean rebels from the Revolutionary United Front, or RUF.Prosecutor Nicholas Kumjian says Taylor bears primary responsibility for those rebels.

Charles Taylor Defense Says War Crimes Trial Politically Motivated