It has been alleged that the firms provided soldiers who took an active part in the fighting against the Revolutionary United Front ( RUF ).

It has been alleged that Charles Taylor received military training in Libya, under Ibrahim Bah, a Senegalese national, ex-Hezbollah, and Sierra Leone's RUF's General .< ref > Douglas Farah, Stephen Braun, " Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes, and the Man Who Makes War Possible ," < i > John Wiley & Sons </ i >, Apr 14, 2008, 320 pp. The RUF was influenced by Libyan leader Colonel Mu ' ammar al-Qadhaff's amalgam of socialist-Islamic philosophies .</ i >< ref > Raymond D. Gastil, " Freedom in the World: The Annual Survey of Political Rights & Civil Liberties 1997-1998 ," < i > Transaction Publishers </ i >, Jan 1, 1997, 610 pp., p. 453

Porsche, available in the first two games, has been omitted from this game in favor of RUF.

RUF has also made a name for itself as an automobile refiner, specialist in vintage restoration and rebuilds of classic RUF and Porsche automobiles.

The RUF abducted children aged 7 to 12, but were known to take children as young as 5 years old.

Four years later, during the sessions of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, prosecutors claimed that Charles Taylor had actively participated in directing the RUF's strategy from Liberia ; among the allegations was that he had arranged to transport RUF commanders to Monrovia to meet with them personally .< ref >" Alleged Taylor-RUF Racket Detailed ".

* In 2012, the Documentary Life does not lose its value ( Original title, Italian language, La vita non perde valore, Bluindaco Productions © 2012 ), focuses on the reintegration, lead by Father Giuseppe Berton, of former child soldiers, after they lived for years in the forest, together with the rebels of the RUF, Revolutionary United Front.

The AFRC coup was accompanied by an explosion of violence against civilians throughout the nation ; the key strategic change was that the RUF had immediate access throughout the country, something they had failed to achieve through six years of military action.

The children of those killed in the fighting, or who died in detention, were among the first to join the Revolutionary United Front ( RUF ) when they attacked eastern and southern Sierra Leone from Liberia nine years later.

In the years following the death of Sierra Leone ’ s first prime minister Sir Milton Margai in 1964, politics in the country was increasingly characterized by corruption, mismanagement, and electoral violence that led to a weak civil society, the collapse of the education system, and, by 1991, an entire generation of dissatisfied youth, members of which were attracted to the rebellious message of the Revolutionary United Front ( RUF ).

More and more of the country fell to RUF fighters, and by 1994 they held much of the diamond-rich Eastern Province and were at the edge of Freetown.

While at Oklahoma, he was an accomplished amateur wrestler and a member of the Kappa Alpha Order Greek letter fraternity and a member of the all male spirit club, RUF / NEKS.

The election slogan at that time was that the people ' had power in their hands ', so the RUF would hack the hands off to prevent voting.

The RUF was routed following several crushing defeats at the hands of the Indian and British special forces and the revolution ended.

By 2 June 1997, the RUF / AFRC found itself at odds with Nigerian forces, which were deployed unilaterally at this stage under the Economic Community of West African States ( ECOWAS ) Ceasefire Monitoring Group ( ECOMOG ) and its mandate of August 1997 ).

During Strasser's time at the war front in Kailahun District against the RUF, the Government of Sierra Leone led by president Joseph Saidu Momoh hardly supplied enough boots to the soldiers and the necessary military equipment to help fortify Strasser and his fellow soldiers in the war against the RUF.

RUF hosts its main conference for students during three weeks in the summer at Laguna Beach, Florida.

Several rationales have been suggested for the coup, including: anger at the government for not implementing the November 1996 peace agreement with the Revolutionary United Front ( RUF ), perceived ethnic discrimination in the appointment of the highest ranks of government, perceived financial neglect of the armed forces, and favoritism for the ethnic Mende Kamajors led by Samuel Hinga Norman.

In March 1996 the RUF opened the school at Kangama, paying the teachers in foodstuffs.

The First Liberian Civil War, instigated by Charles Taylor and the National Patriotic Front of Liberia ( NPFL ) on December 24, 1989, eventually spread to neighboring Sierra Leone in 1991 when dissidents of the Revolutionary United Front ( RUF ), led by Foday Sankoh, began using Liberia as a staging ground for NPFL backed military assaults on border towns in Sierra Leone.

By 2000, Koroma no longer held significant influence over the RUF leadership, as evidenced by the involvement of ex-AFRC members ( from a splinter group called the West Side Boys ) in defending towns in Port Loko District against a renewed RUF offensive in May 2000.

On January 16, 1996, Bio lead a military coup, ousting captain Valentine Strasser following a division within the governing Supreme Council of State ( SCS ) over whether to seek peace with the RUF before multi-party elections, planned for March 1996, or go ahead with the election notwithstanding the ongoing war in the country, and the conditions for participation ( or disqualification ) of junta members in the elections.

In 2001, Liberian forces along with the RUF began attacking and burning refugee camps and Guinean villages along the border.

This was a reversal of Guinea's previously open policy towards refugees and it further escalated the refugee crisis as refugees attempted to cross back through RUF territory.

Charles Taylor — then leader of the National Patriotic Front of Liberia — reportedly helped form the Revolutionary United Front ( RUF ) under the command of former Sierra Leonean army corporal Foday Saybana Sankoh, an ethnic Temne from Tonkolili District in Northern Sierra Leone.

Taylor ’ s aim was for the RUF to attack the bases of Nigerian dominated peacekeeping troops in Sierra Leone who were opposed to his rebel movement in Liberia.

Foday Sankoh and his Revolutionary United Front ( RUF ), posed an increasing burden on the country.

The NPRC proved to be nearly as ineffectual as the Momoh-led APC government in repelling the RUF.

Within a month they had driven RUF fighters back to enclaves along Sierra Leone ’ s borders, and cleared the RUF from the Kono diamond producing areas of Sierra Leone.

President Kabbah open dialogue with the RUF and invited RUF leader Foday Sankoh for peace negotiation.

Koroma suspended the constitution, banned demonstrations, shut down all private radio stations in the country and invited the RUF to join the new junta government, with its leader Foday Sankoh as the Vice-Chairman of the new AFRC-RUF coalition junta government.

Within days, Freetown was overwhelmed by the presence of the RUF combatants who came to the city in their thousands.

But in May, when nearly all Nigerian forces had left and UN forces were trying to disarm the RUF in eastern Sierra Leone, Sankoh's forces clashed with the UN troops, and some 500 peacekeepers were taken hostage as the peace accord effectively collapsed.

The hostage crisis resulted in more fighting between the RUF and the government as UN troops launched Operation Khukri to end the siege.

Foday Sankoh, already in custody, was indicted, along with notorious RUF field commander Sam " Mosquito " Bockarie, Johnny Paul Koroma, and Hinga Norman, the Minister of Interior and former head of the Civil Defense Force, among several others.

In 1991 the RUF began to make war against the government, and the army went on the offensive toward the end of the year along with troops from Guinea.

* The Sierra Leone Civil War ( 1991 – 2002 ) came to an end when the Revolutionary United Front ( RUF ) finally laid down their arms.

In Armies of the Young: Child Soldiers in War and Terrorism anthropologist David M. Rosen discusses the murders, rapes, tortures, and the thousands of amputations committed by Small Boys Unit of the Revolutionary United Front ( RUF ) during Sierra Leone's civil war (( 1991-2001.

In 2000, the UN accused Liberian president Charles G. Taylor of supporting the Revolutionary United Front ( RUF ) insurgency in neighboring Sierra Leone with weapons and training in exchange for diamonds.

He was accused of aiding the rebel Revolutionary United Front ( RUF ) through weapon sales in exchange for blood diamonds.

Furthermore, he was charged with aiding and abetting RUF atrocities against civilians that left many thousands dead or mutilated, with unknown numbers of people abducted and tortured.