Rebels

In March of 1991 a small group of men who called the themselves the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) who was led by former corporal, Foday Sankoh, began to attack villages in Eastern Sierra Leone. The RUF's signature move was physical mutilation by amputation, an estimated 200,000 people suffered a loss of limb from the RUF. Ranging anywhere from legs, arms, lips, and ears, which were cut off by machetes, and axes. The RUF would often destroy villages and kill everyone who was there except a few men and boys ranging from 7 to 40. Who they probably made soldiers. The RUF would also kill anyone who tried to escape, except sometimes when they would amputate someone's limb and send them to the next village to warn them. They would also take some civillians hostage so the military would stop attacking them, but then when all of the RUF's supplies ran out they would burn the village; kill everyone who was there and move on to the next one. []