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The United Nations Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) on Tuesday expressed "grave concern" at the continuing abuse of human rights and humanitarian law committed in Sierra Leone.
In a press release, the organisation noted that atrocities against civilians such as rapes, hostage-taking, summary executions, mutilations, forced labour, and abuse of women and children have been done with impunity.
It implicated the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), Armed Forces
Revolutionary Council (AFRC) and ex-Sierra Leone Army (SLA) in these acts.
The commission called for an end to such abuses and urged the parties to the Lome Peace Agreement to fulfill all their commitments and to respect human rights and international humanitarian law. It also called on the government to continue to comply with its obligations to promote and protect human rights and to work closely with the UN Mission in Sierra
Leone (UNOMSIL).
The commission, however, welcomed the steps taken by the government and the civil society to create a human rights infrastructure in the country.
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