Rashid Mansaray

Rashid Mansaray († November 1992 between Koindu and Kailahun ) was, along with Foday Sankoh and Abu Kanu , a founding member of the rebel organization Revolutionary United Front (RUF) in Sierra Leone . Mansaray was instrumental in the outbreak of the civil war in Sierra Leone .

Mansaray 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, Mansaray spoke out against some of the RUF's methods, including the recruitment of child soldiers . From 1991, Mansaray was responsible for leading the special forces, which consisted mainly of members of the NPFL. The special forces were disbanded in 1993.

Mansaray was executed by the RUF in November 1992, a few months after Abu Kanu, for "technical sabotage" . He had previously been sentenced to death in an express trial . 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.
↑ ^a ^b 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	Mansaray, Rashid
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Sierra Leonean rebel leader
DATE OF BIRTH	20th century
DATE OF DEATH	November 1992
Place of death	between Koindu and Kailahuhn

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

[abdullah-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.