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Johnny Paul Koroma (born May 9 , 1960 in Tombodu – died June 1 , 2003 in Foya Kamala , Liberia ) was the head of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council of Sierra Leone from May 1997 to February 1998. He was a military commander in the civil war fought in Sierra Leone during the 1990s. He was born in Tombodu , Kono District , in eastern Sierra Leone. He was a northern Limba , the same ethnic group as former President Joseph Saidu Momoh , who was deposed by the army in 1992. Koroma received military training in Nigeria and Britain . He commanded government forces who were fighting against the Revolutionary United Front of Foday Sankoh . He was arrested in August 1996 after being involved in a coup plot against the southern civilian officials who were in control of the country. President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah was to have been killed. Koroma was released from prison during a successful military coup on May 25 , 1997 , when soldiers loyal to him brought him to power. He advocated making a peaceful settlement with Sankoh and allowing him to join the government, though this never happened. Koroma's forces were driven out of the capital, Freetown , in February 1998 by Nigerian-led forces of the Economic Community Of West African States , and Kabbah was subsequently restored to power. After the end of the civil war, Koroma won a seat in parliament in the 2002 elections, but on January 19 , 2003 , he was charged with another coup plot, and on March 10 , 2003 he was indicted by the Special Court For Sierra Leone for war crimes. He fled to Liberia where he was reportedly killed on June 1 , 2003 , under mysterious circumstances. It is unknown whether he was killed by his own men or by the Liberian army. |
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