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FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) - Three former Sierra Leonean military leaders were found guilty of war crimes Wednesday by a U.N.-backed court — the first verdicts from the country's civil war and the first convictions in an international court for using child soldiers.
The court found the three defendants guilty of 11 of 14 charges, including terrorism, using child soldiers, enslavement, rape and murder.
The three were acquitted of charges of sexual slavery, "other inhumane acts" related to physical violence, and acts related to sexual violence, said Peter Andersen, spokesman for the Sierra Leone Special Court.
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