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- West_Side_Boys abstract "The West Side Boys, also known as the West Side Niggaz or the West Side Junglers, were an armed group in Sierra Leone, sometimes described as a splinter faction of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council.The group captured and held peacekeepers from the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) and, in August 2000, captured a patrol of British soldiers from the Royal Irish Regiment and was subsequently destroyed in an operation by the Special Air Service and Parachute Regiment in September 2000 during Operation Barras. The group was influenced to some extent by American rap and gangsta rap music, especially Tupac Shakur, and the "gangsta" culture portrayed therein. Since the title 'West Side Niggaz' would have been an entirely unacceptable phrase to be regularly used on news programmes concerning the group, the title was amended to render it to the innocuous 'West Side Boys'. Prior to their destruction, the group's size had expanded to around 600 but later suffered about 200 defections.Many members of the group were children abducted after their parents had been killed by the "recruiters". Some of these children were forced to participate in torturing their parents to death in order to brutalise and dehumanise them. (See military use of children.) The West Side Boys were heavy users of poyo, (homemade palm wine,) locally grown marijuana, and heroin bought with conflict diamonds. Conflict diamonds were also used to purchase many of their weapons, which ranged from FN FAL/L1A1 rifles, AK-47/AKM rifles and RPG-7 grenade launchers to 81 mm mortars and ZPU-2 anti-aircraft guns. Most of their vehicles were hijacked from UN food convoys.".
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- West_Side_Boys allies Armed_Forces_Revolutionary_Council.
- West_Side_Boys area "Occra Hills, Sierra Leone".
- West_Side_Boys dates "1998".
- West_Side_Boys hasPhotoCollection West_Side_Boys.
- West_Side_Boys leader "Foday Kallay".
- West_Side_Boys name "West Side Boys".
- West_Side_Boys opponents British_Armed_Forces.
- West_Side_Boys opponents Economic_Community_of_West_African_States_Monitoring_Group.
- West_Side_Boys opponents Republic_of_Sierra_Leone_Armed_Forces.
- West_Side_Boys opponents Sierra_Leone_Police.
- West_Side_Boys size "400".
- West_Side_Boys status "Defunct".
- West_Side_Boys subject Category:1998_establishments_in_Sierra_Leone.
- West_Side_Boys subject Category:Guerrilla_organizations.
- West_Side_Boys subject Category:Rebel_groups_in_Sierra_Leone.
- West_Side_Boys subject Category:Sierra_Leone_Civil_War.
- West_Side_Boys type Abstraction100002137.
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- West_Side_Boys comment "The West Side Boys, also known as the West Side Niggaz or the West Side Junglers, were an armed group in Sierra Leone, sometimes described as a splinter faction of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council.The group captured and held peacekeepers from the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) and, in August 2000, captured a patrol of British soldiers from the Royal Irish Regiment and was subsequently destroyed in an operation by the Special Air Service and Parachute Regiment in September 2000 during Operation Barras. ".
- West_Side_Boys label "West Side Boys".
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