War Crimes Suspect May Have Been Killed
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From Times Wire Reports
An international tribunal is investigating reports that a former junta leader wanted for crimes allegedly committed during Sierra Leone’s civil war has been killed in neighboring Liberia, court officials and relatives said.
Alan White, the tribunal’s chief investigator, said he received “credible information” from Liberia that Johnny Paul Koroma was slain by his own men. Koroma was one of the first people charged by the tribunal investigating human rights abuses during the 1991-2000 civil war in Sierra Leone.
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