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The paper looks at the roots of the Sierra Leone conflict in the 1990s and the toll it exacted upon all concerned. Specifically, the paper argues that the war was fundamentally about diamonds - money, in other words - and about power, with Liberia's Charles Taylor and RUF senior commanders seeing an opportunity at the start of the 1990s to make gains at the expense of a weakened Sierra Leonean government.

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"The following paper will look at the roots of the Sierra Leone conflict in the 1990s and the toll it exacted upon all concerned. Specifically, the paper will argue that the war was fundamentally about diamonds - money, in other words - and about power, with Liberia's Charles Taylor and RUF senior commanders seeing an opportunity at the start of the 1990s to make gains at the expense of a weakened Sierra Leonean government. While the roots of any war are often complex, it certainly appears as though the vicious civil war pitting the student-led (well, former university students) and Libyan-trained Revolutionary United Front (RUF)..."

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