Civil War: Militia Leader Sentenced To 20yrs In Prison
December 31, 2019
2:35 pm
Charles Ble-Goude, an ally of former Cote dβIvoire President Laurent Gbagbo, has been sentenced in absentia to 20 years in prison by a court in Abidjan, for his role in the civil war.
The civil war followed the 2010 presidential election, his lawyers said.
Ble-Goude headed the notorious Young Patriots street militia during Gbagboβs presidency.
Gbagbo and Ble-Goude were acquitted in January by the International Criminal Court (ICC), in The Hague, of charges of crimes against humanity during the violence, in which some 3,000 people were killed.
But Ivorian prosecutors this month brought charges against Ble-Goude, who has remained in
