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April 26th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
The war, in the world’s poorest country, officially played out between 1996
and 2002 but the real conflict, and the Liberia backed and Libya trained
rebels behind the insurgency, dated back to 1991.
Over a decade of fighting, fuelled by the use of “blood diamonds” to
fund insurgents, only ended after Tony Blair sent British troops into the
country in an intervention later used to justify the invasion of Iraq.
Right from the beginning the Revolutionary United Front, insurgents allegedly
backed by Taylor, a Liberian warlord later to become the country’s leader,
based their violent strategy on seizing control of Sierra Leone’s diamond
mines.
First operating from Liberia the RUF quickly established a reputation for
brutality, beheading community leaders and raping women and children to
terrorise the civilian population.
The signature terror tactic of the rebels was physical mutilation and an
estimated 20,000 civilians suffered amputation, with machetes and axes being
used to sever arms, legs, lips, and ears.
The RUF was also became notorious for its Small Boys Units, made up of child
soldiers as young as eight who were forcibly recruited and then drugged and
sent to fight with AK47 assault rifles. The children became among the most
feared units in what became one of the world’s most vicious civil wars.
It was an RUF assault on Sierra Leone’s capital of Freetown in May 2000 and
the taking hostage of hundreds of UN military observers that led to Britain
sending 1,500 peacekeepers.
Two years later the conflict had ended after a Western intervention that still
remains model military operation for humanitarians.
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