Sierra Leone: War Crimes Suspect Protests At Trial By White Men

Santigie Kanu, a member of the military junta that ruled Sierra Leone in the late 1990s, protested that he was being tried by white men as he pleaded not guilty to war crimes and crimes against humanity, at the country's UN-backed Special Court. "I do not understand why I am standing before white people," he told a court hearing, presided over by Canadian judge Pierre Boutet, on Tuesday.