Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (Sierra Leone)

Johnny Paul Koroma (1999)

The Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC, to German about revolutionary council of the armed forces ) was a council of soldiers in Sierra Leone , which as part of the civil war in Sierra Leone briefly took over in 1997 and 1998 the country's leadership.

The AFRC was founded by Major Johnny Paul Koroma in 1997 and took power from the democratically elected President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah in a coup on May 25, 1997 . Koroma himself was the illegitimate head of state of Sierra Leone until February 12, 1998, when a West African force intervened as chairman of the AFRC .

In June 2007, three AFRC individuals, Alex Tamba Brima , Brima Bazzy Kamara and Santigie Borbor Kanu , were found guilty of war crimes , terrorism , murder , rape , slavery , child recruitment and use, and other crimes by the Sierra Leone Special Court . They received terms of 45 and 50 years, respectively, serving in Mpanga Prison in Rwanda .

Individual evidence

^ Sierra Leone: The Main Players 5/12/99. Africa Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania, May 12, 1999. Retrieved January 23, 2017.
^ Sierra Leone Convicts 3 of War Crimes . Washington Post, June 20, 2007

[1] Sierra Leone: The Main Players 5/12/99. Africa Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania, May 12, 1999. Retrieved January 23, 2017.

[2] Sierra Leone Convicts 3 of War Crimes . Washington Post, June 20, 2007