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Human Rights Developments
Defending Human Rights
The Role of the International CommunityMost of the human rights organizations in Sierra Leone were relatively new and admittedly lacked institutional support and experience. A number of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), including Amnesty International/Sierra Leone, Forum of Conscience, Local Aid-Sierra Leone, the National League for Human Rights and Democracy, Prison Watch, Save Heritage and Rehabilitate the Environment, and Feed the Homeless operated unfettered from Freetown, the capital. Several of these groups were members of a coalition, the National Forum for Human Rights. Faced with the gross atrocities committed by AFRC/RUF troops, many of the human rights organizations, like the local press, were generally supportive of ECOMOG and the Kabbah government’s human rights record. Lawyers defending individuals from the group of fifty-eight accused of treason and other crimes received threats from a range of sources, including gangs of youths seeking revenge for AFRC/RUF crimes. As of mid-October, no lawyers had offered their services to RUF leader Foday Sankoh, on trial for treason. Threats continued to be made against anyone defending accused AFRC/RUF members or collaborators. |
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