In 1998, the former government ousted the RUF/AFRC government. RUF and the former government returned to full scale civil war in 1998.¹

Coding for this case ceased on December 31, 1998.

In January 1997, two months after the peace accord was signed, the SLPP government and Kamajors launched attacks against RUF units in northern Kailahun. This was condemned by the rebels as being unprovoked. Keen argues that the continued actions of the Kamajors (which also included executions of RUF combatants that attempted to resettle in their home villages) was one of the main reasons for why the RUF rejected the 1996 accord and sided with the AFRC in May 1997.² In May of 1997, Major Johnny Paul Koroma and his soldiers formed an alliance with RUF troops and toppled Sierra Leone’s government. President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah fled into Guinea.³

No legislative measures were taken with respect to amnesty.

In 1998, the former government ousted the RUF/AFRC government. RUF and the former government returned to full scale civil war in 1998.¹

Coding for this case ceased on December 31, 1998.

In January 1997, two months after the peace accord was signed, the SLPP government and Kamajors launched attacks against RUF units in northern Kailahun in violation of the accord. Keen argues that the continued actions of the Kamajors (which also included executions of RUF combatants that attempted to resettle in their home villages) was one of the main reasons for why the RUF rejected the 1996 accord and sided with the AFRC in May 1997.¹ In April of 1997, RUF members were engaged in hostage taking.⁴

In May of 1997, Major Johnny Paul Koroma and his soldiers formed an alliance with RUF troops and toppled Sierra Leone’s government. President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah fled into Guinea.⁵

An independent National Commission on Human Rights was not established. None of the above mentioned reforms related to the improvement of human rights conditions were undertaken in 1996. Amnesty International reports that one week after the peace agreement was signed by the Government of Sierra Leone and the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), more than 150 civilians were killed in the north of the country.⁵

No further developments regarding the paramilitary firm known as Executive Outcomes.

RUF and the former government returned to full scale civil war in 1998.¹

Coding for this case ceased on December 31, 1998.

The South African mercenaries belonging to Executive Outcomes were contracted by the government to protect the diamond mines from rebels and thieves. The exact number of mercenaries in the country is not clear, but according to one report, “they numbered 250 a little over a year ago when Freetown was within reach of Revolutionary United Front guns.” The BBC reported that troops from Executive Outcomes left Sierra Leone in late January or early February 1997.⁶

Executive Outcomes was a private military firm founded in South Africa by Eeben Barlow, the former Lieutenant-Colonel of the South African Defence Force. There were no reports of Executive Outcomes soldiers leaving Sierra Leone in 1996.

In 1998, the former government ousted the RUF/AFRC government. RUF and the former government returned to full scale civil war in 1998.¹

Coding for this case ceased on December 31, 1998.