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Contempt of Court

After his arrest, the United States government was one of the first to call for an international tribunal to try Sankoh for war crimes. Since no such permanent court exists, however, an ad-hoc one would have to be createda difficult, expensive, and time-intensive process. Setting up such international courts has in fact proved so complicated […]