STOP NATO: �NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------- ListBot Sponsor -------------------------- Sopranos fanatics, this one is for you. Tony Soprano's autographed Suburban is available for purchase on eBayTM. James Gandolfini has personally signed the vehicle. Find this and over 800 other Sopranos items for sale on eBay. http://www.bcentral.com/listbot/ebay ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [Uncanny coincidence no doubt that the three countries and parties that are the first to get the 'Yugoslav treatment' - Liberia, Zimbabwe and now the RUF in Sierra Leone - are, like Yugoslavia itself formerly, on the top of the US State Department's and British Foreign Office's hit list. But it's no coincidence that Kofi Annan, handpicked choice of Madeleine Albright to be Secretary-General of the UN, is pursuing Washington's and London's targets with such a single-minded devotion.] July 17, 2001 S. Leone Tribunal Gets Tentative U.N. OK by EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press Writer UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Secretary-General Kofi Annan has given a tentative go-ahead to a joint U.N.-Sierra Leone war crimes tribunal to prosecute those responsible for atrocities during the West African nation's civil war -- provided he gets enough money. Efforts to create a tribunal have been seriously hampered by a lack of financing, and Annan has been forced to scale down the size of a prospective court. In a letter to the U.N. Security Council circulated Monday, Annan said he wants countries, which pledged money toward the $15 million goal for the court's first year, to deposit the money in a trust fund within 30 days. Once the money is available, he said he will ask U.N. legal counsel Hans Correll to negotiate an agreement with the Sierra Leone government on the establishment of the Special Court. ''I think he now would like to see, can he actually get the money in the bank for the first year?,'' U.N. spokesman Fred Eckhard said Monday. ''If he can get within spitting distance of the amount he needs, I think he'd be willing to go ahead.'' Last August, the Security Council asked Annan to negotiate an agreement with Sierra Leone to create a joint war crimes tribunal, to be based in the country's capital, Freetown. Foday Sankoh, imprisoned leader of the Revolutionary United Front, is expected to be among the first people tried by the international court for crimes dating back to 1996. Sankoh's movement kidnapped children as fighters. Boys as young as 6 called him ''Pa Sankoh'' and killed on command. Rebels led by Sankoh took 500 U.N. peacekeepers hostage last May, violating a 1999 peace accord signed in Lome, Togo, and reigniting the war that began in 1991. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
