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|crimes = [[War crimes]]<br>[[Crimes against humanity]]<br>Mass [[murder]]<br>Sexual slavery | |crimes = [[War crimes]]<br>[[Crimes against humanity]]<br>Mass [[murder]]<br>Sexual slavery | ||
|goals = Overthrow the government of Sierra Leone (failed) | |goals = Overthrow the government of Sierra Leone (failed) | ||
|hobby = Murdering, raping, pillaging, and mutilating}}''' | |hobby = Murdering, raping, pillaging, and mutilating}}'''Foday Sankoh''' (17 October 1937 – 29 July 2003) was a Sierra Leonean warlord who founded the [[Revolutionary United Front]], the primary antagonistic faction of the Sierra Leone Civil War that was supported by Liberian President [[Charles Taylor]]. | ||
==Biography== | ==Biography== | ||
Foday Sankoh was born on 17 October 1937, in the remote village of Masang Mayoso, Tonkolili District in the Northern part of Sierra Leone to an ethnic Temne father and a Loko mother. Sankoh was the son of a farmer. | Foday Sankoh was born on 17 October 1937, in the remote village of Masang Mayoso, Tonkolili District in the Northern part of Sierra Leone to an ethnic Temne father and a Loko mother. Sankoh was the son of a farmer. | ||