The third presidential candidate I met was Pallo Bangura, the representative of the RUF Party.
RUF's founder, a former army photographer, Foday Sankoh, has been imprisoned in Freetown.
This is because they were part of the coalition against the RUF, with their former leader Johnny Paul Koroma in the cabinet.
United Nations personnel attempting to deploy east towards the diamond fields have been met by armed RUF men and forced to withdraw.
The circumstantial evidence includes reports that Mr Taylor met and trained alongside the (now dead) RUF leader Foday Sankoh in camps in Libya.
There was also the fact that when the RUF battlefield commander Sam Bokarie retired, he set up house in the Liberian capital Monrovia (I met him there).
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The Libyan leader helped finance the early activities of a small group of "revolutionaries" including Charles Taylor, who became the president of Liberia, and the RUF leader Foday Sankoh.
And there is the fact that the Sierra Leonean police had secret files which alleged that Mr Taylor sent envoys to and from the RUF (I obtained these files).
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The fears of the refugees - who still have rebel atrocities fresh in their minds - were exacerbated by the continuing mystery surrounding the whereabouts of RUF leader Foday Sankoh.
One of the convicted RUF leaders, Issa Sesay, received a 52-year jail term and a rebel from the Armed Forces Ruling Council (AFRC) group, Alex Tamba Brima, was given 50 years.
Throughout the years that I covered the wars in Sierra Leone and Liberia, many people searched for the "smoking gun" that would prove the link between the Liberian president and the RUF.
The country was tugged back from the brink of utter chaos two years ago, when 800 British paratroopers landed in Freetown to prevent the RUF from over-running the city and toppling Mr Kabbah's government.
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It claimed thousands of lives as rebels from the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), supported by Liberian warlord Charles Taylor, took over the countryside and eventually seized Freetown before being ousted by British and other foreign forces.
But although there was plenty of circumstantial evidence - and a working assumption that the RUF could not have done what it did without rear bases in Liberia - few people would claim to have irrefutable proof.
However, Judge Lussick said in return for a constant flow of diamonds, Taylor provided arms and both logistical and moral support to the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebels - prolonging the conflict and the suffering of the people of Sierra Leone.
It would have been "virtually impossible" for him to order anyone -- including the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), the rebel group in Sierra Leone -- to carry out such actions, Taylor said, because he was too occupied with running his own country.
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The defence, led by a British barrister, Courtenay Griffiths, has been taking the court through scores of cables and memorandums from within the UN to try to show that Mr Taylor was always acting openly and transparently in his dealings with the RUF.
As part of the creeping implementation of the peace deal, the UN do have a presence here, and they were helping provide water and security at a school where 160 child soldiers, apparently abandoned by the RUF the previous week, were being "demobilised" and looked after.
Most of the initial Guinean military effort was in this area, perhaps because it is relatively close to the capital, and this group has now been pushed well back across the border, with most of the fighting now taking place around Kambia, an RUF-held area inside Sierra Leone.
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