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Members of the pro-RUF "West Side Boyz" on the move in Sierra Leone. This group - and many of the other belligerents - recruited children extensively and indoctrinated them with extreme doses of drugs and violence. (ThingLink) On this day in 1991, rebel forces of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) entered Sierra Leone, a diamond-rich…
An outdated Iraqi T-72 is used by Coalition members to clear a minefield. Much of Kuwait is flat, and Coalition tanks were able to snipe Iraqi tanks from many kilometres away. (Wikimedia Commons) In the spring and summer of 1990, relations between Kuwait and Iraq began to break down. Iraq had borrowed huge amounts of…
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