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We Love You! The Campaign To Prosecute.
Comments by victims upon hearing of Kabbah's decision to perdon the perpetrators of the most heinous crimes of the century: "It was like cutting off my remaining leg." "It was like running for shelter to a mosque only to be raped there by priests and imams."
Maria Koromah, 32 (Moriah Junction, April 1998) Fellow Sierra Leoneans, two years ago, president Kabbah sent us the chill of our lifetime by giving Foday Sankoh a hug for the crimes he committed against our people, and members of his RUF/AFRC concubine a slap in the hand. As if the hand slaps and hugs were not enough, the head of state proceeded to hand the RUF/AFRC desperados top jobs in a country citizens of which these guys had maimed, homes burned, children abducted, daughters and nuns raped, left with rebel babies, or infected with STD's. "It was like handing the wolf the key to the coop", an overheard statement following the appointment of Sankoh as chairman of the mining committee. This gesture earned the president the long deserved Fatu Kabbah name. What it didn't do though was help Foday implement the provisions of the peace treaty that could have prompted the hugs. Instead, it fuelled Foday's impudence leading the beast to go loony one May afternoon gunning down dozens of youngsters before fleeing to the bush, his natural habitat. Their crime? They had come to his residence to plead for the release of the 500 UN observers he had ordered taken hostage. (See below for the full story) 17 May 2000 Nine out of ten Sierra Leoneans believe the public should have been given their slice of the melon that morning by leaving them deal with the punk. The United Nations Security Council has reminded the Kabbah government that Foday Sankoh "must be held accountable." for his type of malady. (Read the text of the statement here. The United States has also been urging Mr. Kabbah to do the same. (Click here for article) We are call upon the international community to demand the extradition of Johnny Koroma, Charles Taylor, Foday Sankoh, and Maskita to the Hague for them to answer for the decade long decimation of innocent civillians. These victims, majority of whom do not know a word of simple krio, let alone how to spell their names, do not need to go through another hell in the form of a "truth commission" to have their share of justice. Taking them through that long and rugged path is adding salt to their bleeding wounds. As Martin Luther King once put it, "now is the time to make justice a reality to all of God's children". The truth is evidently clear that Foday Sankoh and his parambulants knew what they were doing from the day they embarked on that infernal road to Tripoli. It is time they are made accountable for their enterprise now that the ride comes to an end. Rapscallions like them are no different from the Krachitches now being tried in the Hague for their part in the Balkan war, nor are their victims unalike the hundreds of Bosnians whose complaints are being processed within the neutral walls of the Hague. Past trials of perpetrators like that of like former Chadian dictator do not leave us much to desire from the corrupt corridors of the African judiciary.
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