Rebel (and Butcher) Foday Sankoh Dies in Sierra Leone

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-2969118,00.html




FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) - Foday Sankoh,
the indicted leader of a bloody 10-year rebel
terror campaign in Sierra Leone, died in U.N.
custody at a hospital in the capital, the
spokesman for the war-crimes court said
Wednesday. He was 65.

Sankoh died late Tuesday night in a
U.N.-controlled section of a Freetown hospital,
said David Hecht of the U.N.-Sierra Leone war
crimes court.

No cause of death was given, but Sankoh had
been ill, and disoriented, almost since his capture
in early 2000.

In June 2002, in one of his last court hearings in
which he spoke, the rebel leader appeared
disheveled, in matted white dreadlocks, and
rambled.

``I'm a god,'' the handcuffed ex-warlord told
court officials then. ``I'm the inner god. I'm the
leader of Sierra Leone.''