Abu Kanu (rebel leader)

Abu Kanu († August 1992 ) was, alongside Foday Sankoh and Rashid Mansaray , a founding member of the rebel organization Revolutionary United Front (RUF) in Sierra Leone . Kanu was thus significantly involved in the outbreak of the civil war in Sierra Leone .

Kanu went through paramilitary training in Libya , during which he came into contact with the National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL), the rebel leader and later Liberian President Charles Taylor . As an intellectual, Kanu spoke out against some of the RUF's methods, including the recruitment of child soldiers .

Kanu was executed by the RUF in August 1992, a few months before Rashid Mansaray, for “ disobedience ” and “ collaboration with the enemy” . The background should have been internal power struggles between Sankoh and the two.

literature

Ibrahim Abdullah: Bush Path to Destruction: The Origin and Character of the Revolutionary United Front / Sierra Leone , In: The Journal of Modern African Studies , Vol. 36, No. 2, June 1998, pp. 203-235.

Individual evidence

↑ IRIN Briefing on the civil war. The New Humanitarian, May 31, 2000.
↑ Ibrahim Abdullah: Bush Path to Destruction: The Origin and Character of the Revolutionary United Front / Sierra Leone , In: The Journal of Modern African Studies , Vol. 36, No. 2, June 1998, p. 225.

personal data
SURNAME	Canoe, Abu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Sierra Leonean rebel leader
DATE OF BIRTH	20th century
DATE OF DEATH	August 1992

[1] IRIN Briefing on the civil war. The New Humanitarian, May 31, 2000.

[2] Ibrahim Abdullah: Bush Path to Destruction: The Origin and Character of the Revolutionary United Front / Sierra Leone , In: The Journal of Modern African Studies , Vol. 36, No. 2, June 1998, p. 225.