{"id":2854,"date":"2014-06-19T09:20:03","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T02:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=2854"},"modified":"2014-06-19T09:20:14","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T02:20:14","slug":"13-people-sentenced-to-life-for-killing-un-peacekeepers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/13-people-sentenced-to-life-for-killing-un-peacekeepers\/","title":{"rendered":"13 People Sentenced To Life for killing UN peacekeepers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Liberian court on Tuesday sentenced 13 people to life imprisonment for cross-border raids into Ivory Coast that killed seven U.N. peacekeepers in a controversial case.<\/p>\n<p>The Liberian nationals were indicted for their alleged involvement in a series of attacks in neighbouring Ivory Coast between 2011-2012 in which they burned houses, murdered civilians and raped women. During raids on the Ivorian villages of Tai and Para in June 2012, seven peacekeepers from Niger were killed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I confirm and affirm the guilty verdict of the jurors. The verdict of the jurors met the law,&#8221; said Judge Emery Paye on Tuesday, referring to an initial guilty judgment given last week and confirmed on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Dressed in bright orange jumpsuits, the men yelled after the verdict was handed down inside the heavily guarded courtroom.<\/p>\n<p>Supporters of the convicted said the trial was a political witch hunt against the Krahn group &#8211; the ethnicity of former President Samuel Doe who was assassinated in 1990, sparking a 14-year civil war.<\/p>\n<p>Current Liberian President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was imprisoned under Doe and is seen by some as holding a grudge against his supporters&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Liberia News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gnnliberia.com\/articles\/2014\/06\/18\/liberia-13-grand-gedeans-sentenced-life-prison\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Liberian court on Tuesday sentenced 13 people to life imprisonment for cross-border raids into Ivory Coast that killed seven U.N. peacekeepers in a controversial case. The Liberian nationals were indicted for their alleged involvement in a series of attacks in neighbouring Ivory Coast between 2011-2012 in which they burned houses, murdered civilians and raped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,1132,1134,1131,4712,1107,257,1133,254,4692],"class_list":["post-2854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-attacks-in-neighbouring-ivory-coast","tag-ellen-johnson-sirleaf","tag-killed-seven-u-n-peacekeepers","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-political-witch-hunt-against-the-krahn-group","tag-south-africa-today","tag-west-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}