Talk:Kunti Kamara

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Kunti Kamara - Notability[edit]

Kunti Kamara, a former Liberian rebel commander during the infamously bloody First Liberian Civil War, is an alleged war criminal, charged with crimes against humanity, in his role as a young commander of a unit of the United Liberation Movement of Liberia for Democracy (ULIMO), in the 1990s. His 2018 arrest and 2022 trial in Paris, on those charges, is the first of its kind against a Liberian combatant in a French court, under the legal doctrine of universal jurisdiction.

His trial has attracted global media attention, including: The Washington Post The Guardian France 24 Front Page Africa Jurist Human Rights Watch

For these various reasons, this subject meets the requirements of WP:Notability

~ Penlite (talk) 14:19, 13 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Details of Charges, Arrest, Indictment, Trial, Conviction, Sentence, & Precedent important[edit]

The sections covering Charges, Arrest, Indictment, Trial, Conviction, Sentence, & Precedent are, arguably, unusually detailed for a Wikipedia article, but are important in this specific case because of its exceptional significance as an early application of universal jurisdiction in French law -- and potentially a source of numerous precedents to be followed or overturned in subsequent litigation, not only of Kamara, but other Liberian war criminals, and others accused of "crimes against humanity."

It has considerable relevance and importance, not only for French law, and Liberian justice, but for the relatively new and evolving major interntional legal concept of universal jurisdiction -- and for deterrence of crimes against humanity. ~ Penlite (talk) 12:49, 26 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]