Atrocities
The CDF committed of a vast number of atrocities and human rights abuses during the long Sierra Leonean civil war. During the war, while fighting along side the Nigerian ECOMOG troops, the CDF was either complicit or directly responsible for many of the events brought before the Special Court for Sierra Leone. In the offensive of January 1999 the CDF was accused of committing upwards of 180 executions of captured RUF members without validating their guilt. Furthermore, around the towns of Bradford and Moyamba, members of the Kamajors posed as rebels and launched multiple attacks on the civilian population that included robbery and indiscriminant murder There have also been countless accounts of CDF abuses on children as well as the indoctrination and forced subordination of child soldiers ).
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