The U.N. Special Court for Sierra Leone found ... in the Revolutionary United Front guerrilla movement -- were known for hacking off civilians' hands and feet during the war, which stood out ...

During Sierra Leone’s civil war, child combatants armed with ... instances in which children recruited to the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) were compelled to commit abuses under threat ...

Three former top RUF leaders were convicted this year of war crimes and crimes against humanity. The Leonardo DiCaprio movie "Blood Diamond" (2006) is set in Sierra Leone during the civil war ...

Former Liberian president Charles Taylor is in a detention centre in The Hague, facing 11 charges of war ... for Sierra Leone has accused Taylor of selling diamonds to finance the RUF.

There is probably no country with as dire a need for a strong human rights commission than war-torn Sierra Leone ... condemnation of the RUF for the perpetration of war crimes and crimes against ...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — At a vast landfill in Sierra Leone ‘s capital of Freetown, smoke billows over decades of ...

a London human rights lawyer and former judge on the Sierra Leone war crimes tribunal. “Aggression is the supreme crime. Many other deaths and maimings follow from an act of war.” He said the court ...

He was sentenced in May 2012 for aiding rebels who committed atrocities in Sierra Leone during its civil war. His lawyers ... weapons to the Revolutionary United Front rebels in exchange for ...

Augustine Gbao, 72, a former leader of the Revolutionary United Front ... convicted war criminal Charles Taylor -- who is serving a 50-year sentence for crimes committed in Sierra Leone ...

Charles Taylor, the exiled former leader of Liberia who escaped custody days after Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo agreed to transfer him to face war crimes charges in Sierra Leone.