Revolutionary United Front

RUF

12/12/2006

In Sierra Leone, the Socialist Islamic terrorist organization RUF (Revolutionary United Front) kidnapped 20 members of the U.N. Assistance Mission and opened fire on a UNAMSIL facility, and thereby burst onto the world scene. The militants killed five U.N. soldiers in the attack. RUF jihadists kidnapped another 300 UNAMSIL peacekeepers throughout the country. In Freetown, armed militants ambushed two military vehicles carrying four journalists. A Spaniard and one U.S. citizen were killed in a car bombing in which the RUF was responsible. Suspected RUF rebels also kidnapped 21 Indian U.N. peacekeepers in Freetown on June 6. Additional attacks by RUF on foreign personnel followed.

A brief history is useful here because many people were mutilated and murdered by these savages. As best we can piece together the puzzle, during the second half of the 1980s, many university students in Sierra Leone became better Muslims by being exposed to the doctrines of, Colonel Moamar Qadhafi, the Muslim Marxist Libyan dictator. In 1987 and ‘88, around fifty Sierra Leoneans were taken to Libya for training in the art of Islamic revolution. Among the students was a functional illiterate who had become part of a revolutionary cell in Kono, Foday Sankoh, a former army corporal who had been jailed for anti social behavior. Three of those trained in Qadhafi's Libya, including Foday Sankoh, started the Revolutionary United Front (RUF).

At the end of 1989, Charles Taylor launched an attack on Samuel Doe's government with a small band of men. Several of them, including Taylor himself, had received training in Libya from the Muslim Marxist Qaddafi. Taylor received considerable support from Foday Sankoh and the RUF.

A humanitarian crisis resulted in the early ‘90s from the RUF's tactics, which followed Islamic protocol and involved brutal attacks on unarmed civilians and children. Attempting to copy the ethnic and religious incitement that had served Charles Taylor in Liberia, the RUF like their mentor Muhammad, targeted traders, plundering and beheading more than 100. These atrocities and others caused rapid and widespread displacement.

Until about 1995, it was unclear what the RUF stood for, who Foday Sankoh was, and what he wanted. In his Revolutionary United Front's Footpaths to Democracy, he proclaimed that his stated purpose was identical to the murderous sexual pervert Mao Zedong and Frantz Fanon (known as Abdullah, or Slave to Allah).

The RUF war in Sierra Leone ultimately caused the death of 75,000 people and forced over half of the country's population to leave their homes. The Muslim Marxist Revolutionary United Front waged a terrorist campaign which included the deliberate and systematic mutilation of civilians. Brutal attacks on non-military targets and public executions of minority ethnic groups where commonplace, producing millions of refugees. The RUF had two major calling cards: dead civilians and thousands of people with their hands, feet, ears or genitals crudely amputated. Amputations on children were particularly prevelant. It was as if they had read Qur'an 5:33: "The punishment for those who wage war against Allah and his Prophet and perpetrate disorders in the land is to kill them or crucify them, or have a hand on one side and a foot on the other side cut off, banishing them from the land. Such is their disgrace in the world and in the hereafter their doom shall be dreadful.".

The RUF made extensive use of child soldiers, using horrific methods to numb their new recruits to barbarity. Thousands of abducted boys were forced to serve as soldiers and the girls, as well as some of the boys, were forced into prostitution. Those chosen to be soldiers were sometimes forced to murder their own parents. Guerrillas frequently carved the initials "RUF" on their chests, and officers reportedly rubbed cocaine into open cuts on their troops to make them manic and fearless. For entertainment, some soldiers would bet on the sex of an unborn baby and then slice open a woman's womb to determine the winner. It is also believed that cannibalism was a hobby of some RUF members.