Sierra Leone: Questions and Answers on Ibrahim Bah

Email Ibrahim Bah is a Senegalese national living in Sierra Leone. During the Sierra Leone civil war, from 1991 to 2002, Bah allegedly provided arms and materiel to the rebel Revolutionary United Front (RUF), according to a United Nations panel of experts and the UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone. During the conflict, the RUF committed widespread and systematic abuses, including murder, mutilation, amputation, torture, rape, and forced abductions. 1. Who is Ibrahim Bah? 2. What is the criminal prosecution against Bah? 3. What are the next steps? 4. Why didn’t the prosecutor of…

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