Open AccessThe Sierra Leone conflict: The Plight of Refugees and the Displaced
Author(s) -
Veronica Nmoma
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
refuge
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.485
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1920-7336
pISSN - 0229-5113
DOI - 10.25071/1920-7336.21916
Subject(s) - sierra leone , refugee , united front , internally displaced person , front (military) , spanish civil war , political science , displaced person , ideology , development economics , gender studies , ethnology , geography , history , law , sociology , politics , communism , meteorology , economics
As a result of the Liberian civil war,Sierra Leone became simultaneously amajor generator and receiver of refugees. Charles Taylor and his NationalPatriotic front of Liberia, along withSierra Leone's Fodiy Sankoh's RevolutionaryUnited Front (RUF) incursioninto Sierra Leone in March 1991, had aprofound impact resulting in at least10,000 casualties, about a millioninternally displaced peoples and some300,000 refugees in neighbouringstates. This paper argues that the RUFobjective was unclear all along, as itlacked ideology and that, even now, ithas yet to put forward a coherent program.