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| Africa: West |
| Sankoh’s body ’missing’ |
| 2003-08-26 |
| The body of the Sierra Leonean rebel leader Foday Sankoh who was indicted for war crimes has gone missing from its grave. "Sankoh’s body is missing from the grave — the grave has been checked... and the body is no longer to be seen," a police officer told Reuters news agency. You need to drive a stake through the body into the ground to keep guys like Foday down. Mr Sankoh formed the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), whose 10-year terror campaign included hacking off the hands, feet, lips and ears of Sierra Leone’s civilians and raping thousands of girls and women. A quaint local tradition. He had been buried earlier this month in his hometown in Magburaka about 210 kilometres (130 miles) from Freetown after a mysterious death while in custody of the UN-backed war crimes court. Hundreds of angry Sierra Leoneans had turned out to watch the transportation of his body. One police official said the corpse had been burned after its exhumation. Same way you kill a vampire. Village elders have told the authorities they do not know who was responsible for the removal of the body. Too many suspects, and nobody cares enough to investigate. Arrested in 2000, Mr Sankoh spent three years in detention and was due to stand trial for alleged crimes against humanity, including murder, sexual slavery and extermination. But his deteriorating health and mental state had made it impossible for him to continue court appearances. |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #3 Same thing happened with Papa Doc Duvalier - only more people were nervous about that one. |
| Posted by: mojo 2003-8-26 3:09:53 PM |
| #2 The corpse was burned so I doubt there would be much left to execute. How about we just throw the body out a airplane at 30,000 ft. and see how long it takes to hit the ground? ( In place of 'ground' insert 'UN'. ) |
| Posted by: Charles 2003-8-26 2:45:12 PM |
| #1 I am hoping that his body is now chilling down in the same meat locker where Ted Williams is hanging. At some time in the future, science might discover a way to cure the physical ailments of this poor excuse for a human being. We could then reanimate him and give him the painful execution that he so richly deserves. |
| Posted by: Steve D 2003-8-26 12:50:11 PM |