Liberia: Bringing War Criminals to Justice

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The sensational year-end arrest and bail hearing in Cape Town of convicted international arms trader Guus Kouwenhoven has brought the terrible decades-long Liberian civil war back into focus in SA.

During his absence from Holland, millionaire Kouwenhoven has already been convicted and sentenced for the part he played in one of Africa's longest and most destructive regional conflicts, a civil war that left an estimated 250 000 people dead. Now, following his December arrest, the Dutch authorities have begun extradition proceedings to have him return and serve his 19-year sentence.

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