Liberia: Arms Dealer Sentenced

24 April 2017
The NEWS (Monrovia)

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 been sentenced to 19 years in prison by a Dutch court.

Guus Kouwenhoven, 74, was convicted by the Dutch appeal court of being an accessory to war crimes and arms trafficking for selling weapons to Liberia's former dictator during civil wars that involved mass atrocities, the use of child soldiers and sexual slavery.

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