Abdulai Jumah Jalloh
Year: 1999
Nationality: Sierra Leone
Killed by: Military Officials
Location: Freetown, Sierra Leone
Press organization: African Champion
What's Abdulai Jumah Jalloh's story?
Jalloh, news editor of the independent newspaper African Champion, was killed by a West African peacekeeping force (ECOMOG) soldier in central Freetown, according to local journalists. Jalloh and the newspaper’s editor, Mohammed D. Koroma, were on their way to a printing company near the state house when a passerby claimed-in the presence of ECOMOG soldiers-that Jalloh was a Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebel and accused him of arson. Jalloh denied the charge, as did Koroma, who told the ECOMOG soldiers that RUF rebels had burned Jalloh’s house.
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