Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: The RUF Phenomenon 2. Sierra Leone: From Independence to State Recession 3. The Making of the Revolutionary United Front 4. War and State Collapse 5. Not Just a Coup: The AFRC Takeover of 1997 6. "Operation No Living Thing" and Terror as Warfare 7. From "U-Nasty" to "Model Peacekeeping" 8. Diamonds and the RUF's War 9. Epilogue: The Reckoning Index

About the Author

Lansana Gberie is a research associate at the Wilfried Laurier Centre for Military, Strategic, and Disarmament Studies. He covered the Sierra Leone civil war as a journalist for Inter Press Service.