# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sam-bockarie
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:02:23.014Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sam-bockarie"
name: "Sam Bockarie"
slug: "sam-bockarie"
description: "Samuel Sam Bockarie, widely known as Mosquito, was a Sierra Leonean politician and army commander who served as a leader of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF). Bockarie was infamous during the Sierra Leone Civil War for his brutal tactics, which included amputation, mutilation, and rape. He earned the nickname \"Mosquito\" for his ability to attack when his enemies were off-guard, mainly during the night. In the book Merchant of Death, the author states the nickname came from Bockarie's claims that he would \"suck the life out of his enemies.\" During his service in the RUF, he befriended future Liberian president Charles Taylor, and RUF commander Foday Sankoh. When Sankoh was imprisoned from March 1997 until April 1999, Bockarie served as commander of the RUF in his place."
tagline: "Sierra Leonean rebel (1963-2003)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1963-10-02"
deathDate: "2003-05-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.15
  momentum:             0.7009345794392523
  historical:           5.735534666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Bockarie"
    title: "Sam Bockarie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Bockarie"
    title: "Sam Bockarie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Bockarie"
    title: "Sam Bockarie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Bockarie"
    title: "Sam Bockarie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Bockarie"
    title: "Sam Bockarie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Bockarie"
    title: "Sam Bockarie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q326154"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump