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RUF leader Foday Sankoh denounced the UN and ECOMOG for pressurising his men instead of other former rebels, ECOMOG spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Chris Olukolade told IRIN on Thursday.
During a "sensitisation" trip on Wednesday to the village of Fadugu, some 25 km from Kabala in northern Sierra Leone, Sankoh told ECOMOG and UN observers that pressure was being put on the RUF to hand over weapons while other groups were not disarming.
"He indicted us publicly," Olukolade said. "We expect him to say these things but we don't agree with him and other groups feel we don't pressurise him enough."
Olukolade said that there had been occasions when ECOMOG had handed over bandits to the national police force as ECOMOG's mandate did not include policing.
Sankoh said ECOMOG and the UN had done nothing about a recent violation of the peace accord when former AFRC forces attacked the RUF-held town of Lunsar and ambushed a vehicle of civilians nearby. However, Olukolade said there had been no confirmation of an attack but ECOMOG was investigating.
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