Corpse of Warlord Delivered to Sierra Leone
From Times Wire Reports
Liberia handed over the body of warlord Sam Bockarie to neighboring Sierra Leone, which has indicted him for atrocities. Bockarie, a former disco dancer and hairdresser who became one of the region’s most feared rebel commanders, was killed in a shootout with Liberian government forces May 6.
Since then, Sierra Leone’s U.N.-backed special court for war crimes had demanded that the corpse be handed over for independent identification. The court is probing crimes such as amputations and mass rape.
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