France court hands Liberian rebel shorter 30-year sentence
The Peninsula
Paris: A French court on Wednesday handed former Liberian rebel commander Kunti Kamara a 30 year prison sentence for violence against civilians and co...
Paris: A French court on Wednesday handed former Liberian rebel commander Kunti Kamara a 30-year prison sentence for violence against civilians and complicity in crimes against humanity during Liberia's first civil war.
Kamara, now 49, had been sentenced to life in prison during a first trial in Paris in 2022.
The Paris criminal court, after an appeals trial that lasted three weeks, upheld a guilty verdict against Kamara for "acts of torture and inhuman barbarity" against civilians between 1993 and 1994, including a teacher whose heart he reportedly ate.
He was again found guilty of complicity in crimes against humanity for not preventing soldiers under his command from repeatedly raping two teenage girls in 1994.
The prosecution had on Monday urged the court to uphold his life sentence.