Ex-Junta Commander to Face Trial, Court Says
Sierra Leone’s U.N.-backed war crimes court said it was holding a notorious former junta commander known as “Five-Five” and would try him for crimes against humanity.
Santigie Kanu, who was better known by his alias during the West African nation’s decade-long civil war, was transferred to the war crimes court by local authorities who detained him in March on separate treason charges.
During the civil war, Kanu was a member of the West Side Boys, a militia headed by Johnny Paul Koroma, who has also been indicted but is missing, believed dead.
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