Feeble CAR football chief found guilty of war crimes

The World Criminal Court has found Patrice-Edouard Ngaïssona, broken-down head of the Central African Republic’s football federation, guilty of 28 war crimes and crimes in opposition to humanity.

He and ex-militia commander Alfred Yekatom, is understood as Rambo, beget been accused of orchestrating brutal attacks on CAR’s Muslim inhabitants between 2013 and 2014.

Yekatom used to be found guilty of 20 prices. He’s been sentenced to fifteen years in detention heart; Ngaïssona purchased 12 years.

Their trial lasted practically four years, with more than 170 witnesses and 20,000 pieces of evidence offered.

Both males led anti-Balaka militias, largely Christian warring parties who rose up after Muslim Séléka rebels seized energy in 2013, ousting President François Bozizé.

Prosecutors train Ngaïssona funded and directed the violence, while Yekatom led attacks on civilians in Bangui on December 5, 2013 when 1,000 of us beget been killed, and half the capital fled.

Victims beget been tortured, buried alive, and centered purely for being Muslim.

Both males denied the costs.

The ruling comes as CAR sees a fragile step toward peace, with two indispensable rebellion groups dissolving this month.

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