Convicted Dutch Arms Dealer Appeals Detention in South Africa

Augustinus Petrus Kouwenhoven, convicted of selling weapons to former Liberian president Charles Taylor and of crimes against humanity, says he is so ill that he has about three years left to live. 

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    NEWS, 24 April 2017

    An international timber trader, who used his business as cover for smuggling weapons to the regime of ex-Liberian President Charles Taylor, in defiance of a UN arms embargo, has… Read more »

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