Did Sierra Leone get war crimes justice
Of the thousands of people canada goose clearance estimated Canada Goose Coats On Sale to have had their arms and limbs amputated during the country’s brutal civil war, only Jabaty Mambu was in the court compound last week.
He was excited it was the last in court activity on Sierra Leonean soil.
“I am happy that justice has finally been done,” he told the BBC.
Most of them beg on the canada goose streets to feed. Society scorns them.
They have been used as a tourist attraction but they say they have not been given enough assistance to help canada goose coats them rebuild their lives since the canada goose factory sale 11 year war officially ended in 2002.
It is fair to say that the Special Court’s Outreach Unit did its best while the trials lasted to get the people to feel and see justice being done.
But for the scarred victims of uk canada goose the Canada Goose sale war struggling to feed Canada Goose online or educate their children, the many millions of dollars that has been spent on bringing about that justice could have been better spent.
This is the tightrope the UN backed hybrid court has had to grapple with since it was set buy canada goose jacket up in 2002.
She says the money spent on the canadian goose jacket court does not come anywhere near the lives and resources that would have been wasted Canada Goose Parka if the war had continued.
The Special Court indicted 13 people, including the then sitting Liberian President Charles Taylor.
The Canada Goose Jackets others uk canada goose outlet came from the RUF, the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council military junta which ruled canada goose uk outlet the country for nine months in 1997/8, and the pro government civil militia group known as the Kamajors.
However, only nine were cheap canada goose uk sentenced following the death, also in custody, of former deputy defence minister and Kamajor leader Sam Hinga Norman, and the killing in Liberia of the notorious cheap Canada Goose rebel battlefield commander, Sam Bockarie 2018 canada goose alias Mosquito. Two other rebel commanders, Morris https://www.goosesale.ca Kallon and Augustine Gbao, are to serve 40 years and 25 years respectively.
Although RUF waged a war that cost the lives of an estimated 200,000 people and displaced canada goose coats on sale hundreds of thousands of others, there is some sympathy for its former interim leader.
Sesay was a victim of a war sparked off by injustice, canada goose store poverty and disillusionment and was hoodwinked into the Canada Goose Outlet ranks of the RUF after he had left the country for Ivory Coast.
When he was made interim leader of the buy canada goose jacket cheap rebel movement he Canada Goose Online had given his childhood to, he was very co operative canada goose black friday sale in ending the war as was admitted even by former President Ahmad canada goose uk shop Tejan Kabbah.
Sankoh did not seem to want to end the war. Not once, but twice he reneged on peace pacts.
On several occasions I flew on the same helicopter with him canada goose clearance sale as we criss crossed the country to canada goose uk black friday meet and talk to his fighters to disarm.