The Ndogboyosoi War, also known as the Bush Devil War, was an episode of political violence that occurred in 1982 between supporters of the
All People's Congress (APC) and the
Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) in
Sierra Leone. The violence was centered in
Pujehun District, especially in the Soro-Gbema chiefdom. It was triggered by the ruling APC party's alleged electoral manipulation and the intervention of a special squad of customs police against supporters of the SLPP candidate.
There was no process of reconciliation following the violence. Children of those killed in the fighting or of those who died in detention were among the first to join the
Revolutionary United Front (RUF), a rebel group which began a
civil war in eastern and southern Sierra Leone nine years later.
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