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347.
     
     
    [5] UN Doc. S/1999/836.
     
     
    [6] Richard Bennett, “The Evolution of the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission”, in Truth and Reconciliation in Sierra Leone (Freetown: UNAMSIL, 2001), pp. 37–51.
     
     
    [7] Truth and Reconciliation Commission Act 2000 , Supplement to the Sierra Leone Gazette Vol. CXXXI, No. 9.
     
     
    [8] Truth and Reconciliation Commission Act 2000 , s. 3. The Commission's three international members were the author, Satang Jow, a former Minister of Education of the Gambia, and Yasmin Sooka, a South African human rights lawyer and member of that country's TRC. The national members were Bishop Joseph Humper, the chair, Laura Marcus‐Jones, an ex‐judge, Professor John Kamara, a college principal and veterinary surgeon, and Sylvanus Torto, a professor of public administration.
     
     
    [9] “Fourteenth report of the Secretary‐General on the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone”, S/2002/679, para. 27.
     
     
    [10] Volume I of the TRC's Report, at pp. 130–66 presents the financial issues in detail. There is also a fairly detailed account of the Commission's financing, including the donor‐related matters, in the 2003 Annual Report of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.
     
     
    [11] Truth and Reconciliation Commission Act 2000 , s. 6(2)(a).
     
     
    [12] Truth and Reconciliation Commission Act 2000 , s. 7(4).
     
     
    [13] Ibid ., s. 6(2)(a).
     
     
    [14] Ibid ., s. 7(1)(a).
     
     
    [15] Ibid ., s. 6.
     
     
    [16] L. Sanders, “Rich and Rare are the Gems they War: Holding De Beers Accountable for Trading Conflict Diamonds”, (2001) Fordham International Law Journal 24, p. 1402; William A. Schabas, “Enforcing International Humanitarian Law: Catching the Accomplices”, (2001) International Review of the Red Cross 83, p. 439.
     
     
    [17] Priscilla B. Hayner, Unspeakable Truths, Facing the Challenge of Truth Commissions (New York/London: Routledge, 2002) pp. 74–75.
     
     
    [18] Articles 5(d), 12(1)(c), 12(1)(d), 13(m), 22(b), 23(b).
     
     
    [19] The same expression appears in an earlier instrument, the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women , GA Res. 48/104, Art. 2(a) and (b), and in the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action of 1993.
     
     
    [20] Solomon Berewa, “Addressing Impunity using Divergent Approaches: The Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Special Court”, in Truth and Reconciliation in Sierra Leone , note 6 above, p. 59.
     
     
    [21] Testimony of Ahmed Tejan Kabbah, President of Sierra Leone, August 5, 2003.
     
     
    [22] Volume 3B of the Report contains a chapter entitled “External Actors in the Conflict”. See Witness to Truth: Report of the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission , Vol. 3B (Freetown, 2004), Chapter II.
     
     
    [23] Witness to Truth , Vol. 2, p. 6.
     
     
    [24] Ian Smillie, Lansana Gberie and Ralph Hazelton, The Heart of the Matter: Sierra Leone, Diamonds and Human Security (Toronto: Partnership Africa/Canada, 2000).
     
     
    [25] Witness to Truth , Vol. 3B, Chapter I.
     
     
    [26] See, for example, “The Rule of Law and Transitional Justice in Conflict and Post‐Conflict Societies, Report of the Secretary‐General”, UN Doc. S/2004/614, para. 64(c).
     
     
    [27] Prosecutor v. Kallon (Case No. SCSL‐2004‐15‐AR72(E) ), Decision on Challenge to Jurisdiction: Lomé Accord Amnesty, March 13, 2004, Prosecutor v. Kamara (Case No. SCSL‐2004‐16‐AR72(E) ), Decision on Challenge to Jurisdiction: Lomé Accord Amnesty, March 13, 2004.
     
     
    [28] Witness to Truth , Vol. 3B, Chapter VI, paras. 10–12.
     
     
    [29] A series of executions carried out by the Kabbah government in 1998 was recently declared by the United Nations Human Rights Committee to be a violation of Article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: Mansaraj et al . v. Sierra Leone (Nos. 839, 840 and 841/1998), UN Doc. CCPR/C/64/D/839, 840 and 841/1998.
     
     
    [30] Art.