福代·桑科

Foday Sankoh was the leader through whom the Revolutionary United Front became one of the most notorious insurgent movements of the post-Cold War period. He did not offer a durable political alternative, but his leadership helps explain how a movement with weak institutional legitimacy could still sustain itself through terror, predation, and cross-border war networks. His profile connects the Sierra Leone Civil War to wider questions of insurgent violence, diamond economies, civilian brutality, and postwar accountability. The RUF's significance lay less in governance than in the destructive power of coercion as a method of rule.