The Sierra Leone Civil War (1991–2002) began on 23 March 1991 when the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), with support from the special forces of Charles Taylor’s National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL), intervened in Sierra Leone in an attempt to overthrow the Joseph Momoh government. The resulting civil war lasted 11 years, enveloped the country, and left over 50,000 dead.
The Sierra Leone Civil War, from 2002 to 1991 when it all was getting started, was a war that never should have been necessary, and never existed as far as the majority of the world was concerned although it went on for over eleven years and the casualties were numerous.