Sierra Leone: Special Court Verdict On 55, Bazzy Today

Freetown — The United Nations backed Special Court for Sierra Leone will today pass judgment in the case of the prosecutor versus Brima Kamara and Santigie Kanu, of former Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC), in Courtroom 2.

Santigie Kanu, alias "Brigadier 55," was issued a seventeen-count indictment that includes crimes against humanity, Violations of Article 3, common to the Geneva Conventions and of Additional Protocol II, and other serious violations of international humanitarian law, while Ibrahim Kamara, aka 'Bazzy,' was also issued another seventeen count indictment of terrorizing civilians, sexual violence, use of child soldiers, looting and burning and attacks on United Nations personnel. He was alleged to be a commander in the military junta that overthrew the constitutional government of President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah on the 25th May, 1997, which was later overthrown in February 1998.

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