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Sankoh promised to fight corruption |
He was idolised as a lion by his supporters, but few others in Sierra Leone will be mourning his death.
Foday sankoh
The former army corporal, wedding photographer and TV cameraman formed the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), whose 10-year terror campaign was launched from neighbouring Liberia.
He promised to share Sierra Leone's vast diamond wealth more widely but this was never implemented in areas under his control.
Sankoh, born on 17 October 1937, had faced a 17-count war-crimes indictment in a United Nations backed tribunal, which included crimes against humanity, rape, sexual slavery and extermination.
Those who met the tubby RUF leader before his 2000 arrest and subsequent stroke spoke of the charismatic, ebullient character of the man known to his fighter