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Sierra Leone Warlord, Foday Sankoh, Dies

HeadlineJul 31, 2003

Former Sierra Leone warlord Foday Sankoh, who led a massive terror campaign, has died in UN custody apparently of natural causes. He was awaiting a war crimes tribunal for committing crimes against humanity. He was charged with overseeing a decade of terror in Sierra Leone that began in 1991. He was known for chopping off the hands, arms and legs of civilians. An estimated 75,000 people died during the civil war. Sankoh was trained in a Libyan guerilla camp alongside his friend Charles Taylor, the embattled Liberian president.

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