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RUF cautiously welcomes Kabbah’s offer

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    The spokesman for the rebel Revolutionary United Front (RUF), Omrie Golley, has cautiously welcomed President Alhaji Ahmad Tejan Kabbah’s talks offer. The Sierra Leone president on Sunday proposed Lome or Bamako as venues for RUF commanders to meet their jailed leader Foday Sankoh, prior to a dialogue with the government. Speaking in a BBC interview, Golley said if the government was “serious for peace and for peaceful dialogue, then it’s a process which we cautiously welcome”.

    He denied the rebel forces had abducted some 2,000 children, claiming the pro-government Kamajor militia and other civil defence militia were recruiting child soldiers. “We say that the issue of children as child soldiers is one that has to be thoroughly investigated,” he added.

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