The Sierra Leone Conflict: The Plight of Refugees and the Displaced

Authors

  • Veronica Nmoma Department of African-American and African Studies, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25071/1920-7336.21916

Keywords:

Sierra Leone, RUF, Revolutionary United Front, Liberian Refugees

Abstract

As a result of the Liberian civil war, Sierra Leone became simultaneously a major generator and receiver of refugees. Charles Taylor and his National Patriotic front of Liberia, along with Sierra Leone's Fodiy Sankoh's Revolutionary United Front (RUF) incursion into Sierra Leone in March 1991, had a profound impact resulting in at least 10,000 casualties, about a million internally displaced peoples and some 300,000 refugees in neighbouring states. This paper argues that the RUF objective was unclear all along, as it lacked ideology and that, even now, it has yet to put forward a coherent program.

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Published

1997-06-01

How to Cite

Nmoma, V. (1997). The Sierra Leone Conflict: The Plight of Refugees and the Displaced. Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees, 16(2), 23–28. https://doi.org/10.25071/1920-7336.21916
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