British military intervention in the Sierra Leone Civil War occurred from May 2000. Although small numbers of British personnel had been deployed previously – in a non-combatant evacuation in 1998 and in the form of a small number of unarmed observers in 1999 – Operation Palliser (May 2000) was the first large-scale intervention by British forces during the Sierra Leone Civil War.
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