Nov. 2 (EUROPA PRESS) –
A court in the French capital, Paris, has sentenced Kunti Kamara, former rebel leader of the United Liberation Movement for Democracy (Ulimo), to life in prison for crimes against humanity committed during the civil war in the African country between 1989 and 1996. .
The Paris Criminal Court has ruled this Wednesday against Kamara, known as ‘Kunti K’, who was charged with crimes of torture, cannibalism, forced labor and complicity in crimes against humanity, according to Radio France Internationale.
The French capital has been the scene for three weeks of a historic trial that this Wednesday, with the presence of several dozen victims from Liberia in the courtroom, has resulted in Kamara being sentenced to life imprisonment in the first case related to the Liberian civil war that the French Justice takes charge of.
Although the affected parties have celebrated the conviction, the sentence is not yet final, since the former rebel leader’s lawyers still have a period of ten days to present appeals, thus opening the possibility of a new trial in the future in the Court of Justice. Paris prison.
Kamara, for her part, has denied the accusations and has claimed to be innocent of all charges. “I am innocent today and I will be innocent tomorrow. I was a simple soldier, that’s all,” said the former warlord in Liberia
During the first Liberian civil war, Kamara was part of an Ulimo that had taken control of the northwest of the country, especially in the Lofa region, where the former commander-in-chief had unleashed a whole catalog of abuses against the civilian population. .
