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The United Liberation Movement of Liberia for Democracy (ULIMO) was a rebel group that participated in the Liberian Civil War (1989-1996). Year 1989 ( MCMLXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar) Year 1996 ( MCMXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar)

ULIMO was formed in May 1991 by Krahn refugees and soldiers who had fought in the Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) fighters. Year 1991 ( MCMXCI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar. Krahn is an Ethnic group of Liberia; it is also the language traditionally spoken by these people The Armed Forces of Liberia ( AFL) is the military of Liberia. [1] It was led by Raleigh Seekie, a deputy Minister of Finance in the Doe government. The finance minister is a Cabinet position in a Government. A minister of Finance (also called financial affairs the treasury the economy or economic After fighting alongside the Sierra Leonean army against the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), ULIMO forces entered western Liberia in September 1991. The Revolutionary United Front ( RUF) was a rebel army that fought a failed ten-year insurrection in Sierra Leone, starting in 1991 and ending in 2002 The group scored significant gains in areas held by another rebel group – the National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL), notably around the diamond mining areas of Lofa and Bomi counties. The National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL was a rebel group that initiated and participated in the Liberian Civil War. In Mineralogy, diamond is the allotrope of carbon where the carbon atoms are arranged in Bomi is a county in the northwestern portion of the West African nation of Liberia. |||} There are 15 counties in Liberia, as of 2005.

From its outset, ULIMO was beset with internal divisions and the group effectively broke into two separate militias in 1994: ULIMO-J, an ethnic Krahn faction led by General Roosevelt Johnson and ULIMO-K, a Mandingo-based faction led by Alhaji G.V. Kromah. Year 1994 ( MCMXCIV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994 Gregorian calendar) The United Liberation Movement of Liberia for Democracy–Johnson faction (ULIMO-J was a rebel group that was active during the Liberian Civil War. Krahn is an Ethnic group of Liberia; it is also the language traditionally spoken by these people Roosevelt Johnson (died 2004 was a Liberian who led a rebel group during the country's civil war. The United Liberation Movement of Liberia for Democracy–Kromah faction (ULIMO-K was a rebel group that was active during the Liberian Civil War. Alhaji GV Kromah is a Liberian politician and former rebel leader

The group, both before and after its breakup, committed serious violations of human rights. Human rights refers to the "basic Rights and freedoms to which all humans are entitled

References

  1. ^ Damrosch, Lori Fisler. Enforcing Restraint: Collective Intervention in Internal Conflicts, 1993. Page 170.

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