Keili, Bishop Michael, 243

Kenema, 285

Kerekou, Matthew, 256, 265

Khobe, General Maxwell, 274, 285

Kigali (city of ), 173

Airport, 200

availability of weapons, 194

curfew, 173

roadblocks, 201

security measures, 173

Kihinira, 181

Kiley, Sam, 285

Kinshasa, 178

Kissinger, Henry, 26

Kissy, 274

Klein, Yair, 293

Koffigoh, Joseph, 299, 307

Koidu, 285

Konneh, Kafumba, 66

Kono District, 228

Koroma, Abdul, 80

Koroma, Major Johnny Paul, 216, 251–252

Kouyate, Lansana, 272

Kromah, Alhaji, 118, 121

Kpomakpor, David, 120

Kuyon, Bismarck, 120

Labor Congress, 253

Lamine, Mamadou, 292

Lasting Peace in Sierra Leone: The Revolutionary United Front (RUF-SL) Perspective and Vision,, 302

Lawson-Betum, Modem, 300

Liberal Party (PL), 181–182, 188

Liberia

Americo-Liberians, 49, 51

elections (1997), 152

Liberia (continued)

ethnic relations in, 49–53

government corruption, 50

League of Nations report, 49

“rice riots,”, 50

U.S. aid for, 52

Liberia Peace Council (LPC), 121

Liberian civil war, 35, 46

causes of, 49–50

disarmament in, 122

government response to, 52–53

IFMC mediation in, 54

Ivory Coast role in, 114

Mali role in, 114

massacres of civilians, 53

mercenaries in, 52, 78

“Operation Octopus,”, 95

outbreak of, 52

pressure for negotiations, 115

proliferation of factions in, 120–121, 328

refugees, 53, 56, 78, 94, 122, 125, 143

ripening of, 77–79

“spoilers” in, 327

UN role in, 116–117

Liberian Council of Churches (LCC), 54

Liberian National Conference, 124

Liberian National Transitional Government (LTGN), 119, 124

incompetence of, 149

Libya

Liberian civil war, xvi, 35, 49, 55, 63, 75, 133, 139, 153, 158, 325, 333

pre-war influence in Sierra Leone, 221–222, 227

RUF support by, 221–222

Libya Base (Sierra Leone), 237