Executive Outcomes: Against All OddsGalago Books, 2007 - 552 pagine EO’s next contract was in May 1995 when 200 men were dispatched to Sierra Leone where RUF rebels, chopping off people’s limbs and engaging in cannibalism, were marching on Freetown. WO smashed the rebels and this led to free and fair elections with a new government being elected. Pressures were again exerted which resulted in EO’s withdrawal. In the place of its 200 troops the UN deployed 18, 000 soldiers at a cost of US $1 billion per year. The rebels regrouped, frequently taking UN troops as hostages, and the country again sank back into an orgy of cannibalism and limb chopping. |
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Intext maps and illustrations diagrams and picture sections | 9 |
Foreword | 10 |
In the beginning | 13 |
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