Sesay was found guilty of 16 episodes related to war crimes and crimes against humanity. Nevertheless, since the court decided that all the deadlines Issa Sesay be served at the same time, the leader of the rebels will hold 52 years in prison.
Along with Siseem Isa were convicted one of the commanders of the RUF Morris Kallon (Morris Kallon) and responsible for the ideology of the rebels Gbao Augustine (Augustine Gbao). Kallon has been sentenced to 340 years in prison, of whom 39 hold in prison, and Gbao - 25 years.
The Revolutionary United Front is one of the main belligerents in the civil war that lasted into Sierra Leone from 1991 to 2001 and ended only after the intervention of the international contingent of the UN.
The rebels of the RUF were against the army and the government trying to establish sole control over the diamond. They actively supported the Liberian dictator Charles Taylor, who currently runs the main defendants at the trial in the Hague Tribunal for crimes in Sierra Leone.
It is believed that through Liberia, the RUF and Charles Taylor sold diamonds mined, called "conflict diamonds", "diamond of death" or "blood diamonds". During the civil war, the RUF rebels practiced mass rape, torture and killings of local people.
Was widely distributed practice amputation those in whom FUC rebels were suspected of their enemies. RUF actively used orphans as child soldiers. Only the civil war were killed, according to some sources, about 120 thousand people.
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