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San Diego Union Tribune – Jul 5, 2004
Prosecutors also described a network of foreign backing for the rebels, including training and forces from Liberia’s then-President Charles Taylor and Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. "What took place in Sierra Leone marks the limits of our language to communicate, and falls outside the realm of expression," David Crane, the American chief prosecutor for the U. -backed court, said in opening statements. "This is a tale of horror, beyond the gothic into the realm of Dante’s Inferno," Crane said. The three former military commanders of the Revolutionary United Front are accused as the primary culprits in their movement’s 1991-2002 battle to take control of Sierra Leone and its diamond fields…
Gadhafi was mentioned in the special court’s indictments but was not accused of any crime. All parties were fighting for influence and Sierra Leone’s mineral wealth, the prosecutor said. "Among their goals, the diamond fields of eastern Sierra Leone; and their motive – power, riches and control in furtherance of a joint criminal enterprise that extended from West Africa north into the Mediterranean region and the Middle East," Crane said. "Blood diamonds are the common thread that bound them together," the prosecutor said. "The rule of the gun was supreme. "Rebels directed most of their attacks on civilians, aiming to terrorize the population, Crane said. The three ex-rebel commanders were to speak later in the day’s proceedings.

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Daily Times – Site Edition
Daily Times – Jul 5, 2004
Daily Times – Site Edition [Printer Friendly Version]. UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, in a statement, paid tribute to the 15 as having given their lives for a noble cause. They died as they lived, as soldiers of peace, Mr Annan said in a message read out at a wreath-laying ceremony at the UN headquarters in Freetown. The 14 Pakistanis and one Bangladeshi were among 24 people killed on Tuesday when their helicopter crashed into a remote hillside in eastern Sierra Leone. The three Russian crewmembers of the chartered Mi-8 were among the dead…
The fire that accompanied the crash slowed identification and the return home of the peacekeepers bodies. About 11,800 UN peacekeepers are helping secure peace after UN and other outside intervention quelled a vicious 1991-2002 insurgency in diamond-rich Sierra Leone. Sierra Leone Vice President Solomon Berewa laid wreaths on the zinc coffins, in a departure ceremony attended by UN, Pakistani and Bangladeshi officials and international diplomats. Mr Annan, in his statement, recognised the service of Pakistani and Bangladeshi troops in UN peace missions from East Timor to Congo to Georgia. In all these lands, ordinary men, women and children are deeply grateful to the Pakistanis and Bangladeshis who came to help in their hour of need, Mr Annan said. Those we lost will find a befitting tribute in a Sierra Leone whose citizens can live free from fear and hopeful for a better future, the UN secretary general said. In 2001, another Mi-8 used by the United Nations crashed in Sierra Leone, killing eight people.