The volatile political environment in Africa has created many African warlords who gained power through military might and ruthless tactics.

For these warlords, violence is the means to the end. Hence, they committed some of the worst atrocities and human rights abuses of our time.

1. Joshua Blair.

Joshua Blahyi or General Butt Naked was once a commander of the forces under the Liberian rebel leader Roosevelt Johnson.

He is known for his role of violence during the first Liberian Civil War in the early 1990s and has admitted he was responsible for more than 20,000 deaths.
Blahyi led many intoxicated young boys into battles fighting naked or dressed in women's clothes. This is war style belief that it made them invincible. After the war, he became a Christian preacher.

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2. Jean Kambanda

Jean Kambanda became Prime Minister of the caretaker government of Rwanda two days after the assassination of the President.

He was held to be criminally responsible after it was found that he did not intervene to stop the genocide that took place.

He has been proven guilty of being responsible for giving out weapons and ammunition to people during the 1993/94 Rwanda Genocide. However, he denied the knowledge of their intended use in a genocide which leaves him with the blood of some 800 000 people on his hands.

3. Joseph Kony

Joseph Kony formed a group called Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda. He was accused for being responsible for recruiting child soldiers with at least 60,000 children abducted.

Accordinng to the reports, his military campaign led to killing of 1000 people per week. As a result, he was accused of ethnic cleansing and war against humanity in Uganda.

4. Thomas Lubanga

Thomas Lubanga is the first person to ever be convicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC)
» as a war criminal. He was a warlord in the
Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo) where he founded and led the Union of Congolese Patriots.
He was a key player in the Ituri conflict.

According to reports, rebels under his command have been accused of massive human rights violations which include ethnic massacres. This activity led to murder and conscripting child soldiers which have led to as many as 60,000 deaths.

5. Bosco Ntanganda

Bosco Ntanganda was a warlord who helped overthrow the Hutu-led government in Rwanda during the civil war in 1994. He later moved to Congo and joined the

Patriotic Forces for the Liberation of Congo » ( Forces Patriotiques pour la libération du Congo , FPLC) - the military wing of the Union of Congolese Patriots » (UPC).

Due to his exploit in Congo, he was made its chief of military operations and was widely known as the 'Terminator'

He is responsible for at least a combined figure of 800 000 deaths and a long list of human right violations.

Ok

charles taylor?

No she-cow ?

I read about that general butt naked

He’d kill babies, Use them as sacrifice and go to war naked

But this guys didn’t make the list ni?

Murtala Mohammed
Adekunle Benjamin

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I never knew the major tribes in Burundi are Hutu and Tutsi

Lubanga resembles Buruitai

Nnamdi Kanu of Biafra is not on that list, that alone makes the list invalid.

The Biafra dilector and supreme head of IPOB is still in the jungle somewhere in Umuahia giving order to his soldiers to bring the Zoo army down.

Sometimes in APRIL

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Abubakar shekau should be in this list

Buratai nko?

East Africa and wickedness. War crimes. Fighting for nothing.

you didn't include Mohammed Farah Aideed Somalia warlord

Foday Sankoh-Revolutionary United Front(RUF) of Sierra Leone.
Jonas Savimbi-United Nationalists for Total Independence of Angola.
Chai! I don old o,I remembered during my secondary school days,whenever I tuned in to BBC Focus on Africa, it sure bet they will carry news pertaining to civil wars in Africa, from Sierra Leone, Liberia, Angola, Mozambique, DR Congo to Central African Republic,no cheerful news at all, na only tales of blood.
Thank God,things are getting better now,at least we are moving away from news of war to proper governance, though we are not there yet,but we are making progress.

Our man from daura.....psychological killings,suicides,forced crime and impending deaths for criminals.....to mention few

what about PMB the lieutenant General of the Fulani herdsmen?

Lalasticlala, Mynd44, Do the needful if this post is worthy of fp

your list is incomplete without idi Amin

Incredible topic, how didn't this ever make FP.

Lalasticlala come and see!!

Muritala Muhammed.


Bihari


APC.


NEPA

1. Sam Bockarie from Sierra Leone due to the appalling atrocities he was guilty of during the war in Sierra Leone, and later in 2002- 2005 as a mercenary hired by Allassane Ouattara' s rebel group in Cote d' Ivoire. Ouattara is now president .


2. Prince Y. Johnson of Liberia

3. Soro Guillaume and the so called
" Commandant Lath " . The former is the leader of the Ivorian rebel group.,that brought Ouattara to power. the latter was one of the rebel military commanders . They killed thousands of men, women and children,burning alive people in villages

4. Jonas Savimbi of Angola. This CiA puppet killed hundred of thousands of people during the cold war.

5. King Leopold of Belgium , he can be seen as an African due to his actions in Congo - Leopoldville
,former Zaire.

6. All Libyan rebel leaders who fought against Gaddafi's regime.

7. The Sudanese army commanders who served in Darfur.

hatchy:
Nnamdi Kanu of Biafra is not on that list, that alone makes the list invalid.

The Biafra dilector and supreme head of IPOB is still in the jungle somewhere in Umuahia giving order to his soldiers to bring the Zoo army down.

The list is not for run away war lords

Came to check if a Nigerian will top the list




This country is a big disappointment everywhere imagine we can't even top the list here

Hmm. Evil men

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Why is this Jean Kambanda looking like a simplified version of BasketMouth??

So a Nigerian didn't make the list, wow!!

In a traditional setting, gbam! This storm currently happening in United Kingdom would have been labeled a sign from the Gods because the Queens grandson decided to leave the royal family after marrying a girl from the neighboring village...

It would have been labeled an *ABOMINATION* and the *consequences* the community has to face from the gods of the land.. And plenty sacrifices for don go to purify the land �����

I thank God for civilization oh! But what do I know�‍♂️�

The list is wrong without Tinubu & Cabals included