UN Tribunal For Sierra
Leone Sentences Former Rebel Leaders
The
UN Special Court for Sierra Leone has sentenced three former
rebel leaders to a combined one hundred and seventeen years in
prison for war crimes.
Issa Sesay was jailed fifty two years; Morris Kallon sentenced
to forty years and Augustine Gbao gets twenty five years in
jail.
The tribunal sat in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
The court also said that it held the former rebel leaders
responsible for a decade of war atrocities, including killings,
rapes and mutilations.
It found the former rebels guilty of most of the 18 individual
counts they were facing, although they denied some of the
charges.
The special court was established in year 2002 at the end of a
civil war which erupted in 1991.
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