Swiss sentence Liberian for war crimes

By Emma Farge
Updated June 19 2021 - 11:09pm, first published 11:04pm
Civil war ravaged the West African nation of Liberia during the 1990s.
Civil war ravaged the West African nation of Liberia during the 1990s.

A Liberian rebel commander has been sentenced in Switzerland to 20 years in jail for rape, killings and an act of cannibalism, in one of the first ever convictions over the West African country's civil war.

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