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Crimes Against Humanity Sierra Leone
1,419 words... e. With President Kabbah back at the head of government, many people faced criminal charges of collaborating with the coup. A former government minister and nine others were sentenced to death for collaborating with the bloody 1997 coup. The sentences pronounced in the High Court by Judge Bankole Rashid brought to 27 the number of civilians condemned to death by hanging in connection with the May 1997 coup and its aftermath. (9, p. 1) Veteran politician Nancy Steele, 75, and two other women ...
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Sierra Leone Rebel Forces
1,738 wordsThe British established a colony at Freetown in 1787 for slaves returning to Africa from Great Britain and the United States and for slaves rescued from shipwrecks. The land of original settlement, where the city later developed, was purchased from local chiefs. The Sierra Leone Company, formed in 1791, administered the settlement until 1808, when it became a crown colony. Britain set up a protectorate over the hinterland of Freetown in 1896. The British were relatively nice towards the people o...
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Violent Conflict Sierra Leone
963 wordsConflict From Environmental Scarcity or Lust For Wealth? In "Environmental Scarcities and Violent Conflict, " Thomas F. Homer-Dixon writes about the possible conflicts that are caused by environmental scarcities, using three different hypotheses's to do so. I found the first hypothesis to be most compelling because I feel it is the most prevalent in the world today. The first hypothesis in "Environmental Scarcities and Violent Conflict" states that environmental scarcity causes simple-scarcity c...
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Consolidate His Power Che Guevara
3,826 wordsThe idea that the Cuban Revolution of 1959 was a peasant revolution or had a peasant character is avidly held misconception, one which has been dispersed by the rebels post-revolutionary rhetoric and the wealth of sympathetic knowledge which based its interpretation of the revolution upon this propaganda. To assign an event as complex as the Cuban Revolution any particular nature is a drastic simplification and confuses the many factors which led to the revolution and its victory. Being the prot...
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Consolidate His Power Che Guevara
4,060 wordsThe Peasantry and the Urban Underground In the Cuban Revolution The idea that the Cuban Revolution of 1959 was a peasant revolution or had a peasant character is a widely held misconception, one which has been propagated by the rebels post-revolutionary rhetoric and the wealth of sympathetic scholarship which based its interpretation of the revolution upon this propaganda. To assign an event as complex as the Cuban Revolution any particular nature is a drastic oversimplification and confounds th...
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Che Guevara Sierra Maestra
1,219 wordsMy name is Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz. I was born on August 13, 1926 on my father s sugar cane plantation. This was located May, which was on the coast of Cuba s Oriente Province. My father s name was Angel Castro. He was born in northwest Spain, and had come to Cuba with the Spanish Army during the Spanish-American War. My mother was Lina Ruz Go lez. As a child, I attended well-known and prestigious catholic schools. When I was six years old, I went to Santiago to lodge at my godparents house. ...
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