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Wednesday, November 1, 2000
Volume:
16
Issue:
11
1020
Abstract:
On October 4, 2000, United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan proposed that a war crimes tribunal should prosecute minors as young as 15 for atrocities perpetrated during the Sierra Leone civil war, generating a controversy about the international human rights implications.
The Sierra Leone Government has advocated holding child combatants be held accountable for the crimes. Olara Otunnu, a former Ugandan foreign minister and Annan’s special envoy for child soldiers, agrees...[more]