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Die Revolutionary United Front (Ruf)
Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften SE Der Bürgerkrieg in Sierra Leone SoSe 2009 Silke Strickrodt

Die Revolutionary United Front (RUF)
Irena Kpogbezan-Lämmerer

Leipziger Straÿe 41 10117 Berlin Tel.: 0176/6300 4127 Mail: laemmeri@cms.hu-berlin.de

14. Dezember 2009

Inhaltsverzeichnis
1 Einleitung 2 Intellektuelle oder lumpen  soziale Ursprünge der RUF 3 Greed or Grievance  Motive der Rebellen 4 Willkürliche Gewalt oder rationales politisches Kalkül? 5 Fazit 6 Bibliographie 2 4 8 12 16 18

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Einleitung

Von 1991 bis 2002 litt die Bevölkerung von Sierra Leone unter einem brutalen Bürgerkrieg, der bis heute viele Fragen oen lässt. Dazu zählt, in welchem Maÿe Kindersoldaten für ihr Handeln verantwortlich gemacht werden können, inwiefern die Regierung mit Schuld oder sogar direkt beteiligt war, welche Rolle Diamanten und andere Ressourcen gespielt haben, und wie ehemalige Kämpfer wieder in die Gesellschaft integriert werden können. Die interessanteste Frage ist meiner Meinung nach, jene nach der Ursache des Krieges. Da es die Revolutionary United Front

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war, die den Krieg begonnen hat,

sollte man auf der Suche nach Gründen und Ursachen bei dieser Gruppe anfangen. Auch Morten Bøås und Kevin Dunn in ihrem Artikel African Guerilla Politics. Raging Against the Machine? unterstreichen den Grund für diese Frage im Folgenden: Lasting solutions to the many wars on the African continent are to be found only in sober analysis of what caused these conicts in the rst place

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, dass mit dem

Wissen, wie es zu einem solchen Krieg kommen konnte, zukünftig die Signale früher erkannt und damit derartige Eskalationen durch rechtzeitiges Handeln verhindert werden könnten. Die Fragen, die ich in dieser Arbeit beantworten möchte, lauten wie folgt: Wer waren die Rebellen , warum und wofür kämpften sie, und wie ist ihr Verhalten zu bewerten oder zu verstehen? Wissenschaftler verschiedener Disziplinen haben sich intensiv mit diesen Fragen auseinandergesetzt.

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