First S Leone war crimes verdicts
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Three rebel leaders are found guilty of war crimes in Sierra Leone - the first verdicts for the UN-backed tribunal.
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Description: A jury finds Scott Peterson guilty of first-degree murder. Peterson was convicted of murdering his pregnant wife, Laci.
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Former Ethiopian leader Mengistu  Haile Mariam was found guilty in absentia of genocide on  Tuesday after a 12-year trial of one of Africa's bloodiest  governments.
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THE HAGUE -- A U N tribunal sentenced the former speaker of the Bosnian Serb parliament yesterday to 27 years in prison for war crimes, but acquitted him of the harsher charge of genocide.
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A court is expected to deliver its verdict on the killing of four associates of the country's first president Mujibur Rahman.
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A former Sierra Leonean militia leader, whose fighters were accused of human sacrifice and cannibalism during the country's civil war, died on Thursday weeks before a verdict was due in his trial for war crimes.
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Tribunal finds militia leaders guilty of mutilation, rape and the use of child soldiers.
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A UN-backed court sentenced three former rebel leaders to prison yesterday, the first punishments handed down by the war crimes tribunal since it was set up five years ago after Sierra Leone's decadelong conflict ended. Alex Tamba Brima, 35, and Santigie Borbor Kanu, 42, were each given 50-year jail terms, while Brima Bazzy Kamara, 39, received ...
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THE HAGUE, Jan. 7 -- The war crimes trial of Charles Taylor, Liberia's former president, heard its first testimony Monday and saw video of victims telling of being sexually assaulted or dismembered by rebels who plundered West African diamond fields.
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An Equatorial Guinea court is due to give its verdict in the case of 19 men accused of plotting to overthrow President Teodoro Obiang Nguema.
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Six of the seven men charged with sex attacks on Pitcairn Island have been found guilty. Mayor Steve Christian was found guilty of five rapes.
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The verdict in the trial of 14 foreign mercenaries accused of plotting to overthrow the president of Equatorial Guinea is expected Friday.
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Six men have been found guilty of a string of sex attacks on the remote Pacific island of Pitcairn, following trials that exposed a culture of sexual abuse on the tiny home of descendants of the 18th century Bounty mutineers.
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KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 20 -- An Afghan man accused of killing three foreign journalists and an Afghan colleague in 2001 was found guilty on Saturday and sentenced to death. He had said that his gang was acting on the orders of a top Taliban commander.
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The first American civilian charged with mistreating a detainee during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan was convicted Thursday of assaulting an Afghan man who later died.
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Opposition leader Ernest Bai Koroma won Sierra Leone's presidential election after a run-off vote marked by tensions and some ballot fraud in the war-scarred West African state, electoral officials said on Monday.
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An Iraqi court has convicted 38 people of charges related to the insurgency, including kidnapping and murder, the U.S.-led coalition said. Their sentences ranged from six months to life.