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UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The U.N.-backed tribunal prosecuting war crimes in Sierra Leone is pressuring Nigeria to hand over former Liberian President Charles Taylor for trial and is searching for a rebel leader, the court's chief prosecutor said Friday.
The tribunal hopes to prosecutor Taylor and the rebel leader Johnny Paul Koroma before wrapping up its work in about 18 months, said Desmond De Silva, the chief prosecutor. He warned that the two men will not escape prosecution even if they are found afterward.
The tribunal is trying several rebel military commanders on charges stemming from accusations of systematic killings, rapes, enslavement of child soldiers and mutilation with machetes during Sierra Leone's 1991-2002 civil war.
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