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Acknowledgements

Elise Keppler, counsel for the International Justice program at Human Rights Watch, wrote this report.  Elise Keppler and Corinne Dufka, West Africa team leader and Sierra Leone/Liberia researcher for the Africa division, conducted interviews in Freetown in March 2004, and by telephone and in person in New York and Freetown between April and August 2004.  Richard Dicker, director of the International Justice program, edited the report.  Corinne Dufka and Jennifer Trahan, counsel for the International Justice program, also edited the report.  Wilder Tayler, legal and policy director, conducted legal review and Widney Brown, deputy program director, conducted program review.  Substantial research assistance and drafting of the appendix was provided by interns Collin Smith and Mark Kleyna.  Additional research assistance was provided by interns Bina Ahmad, Lisa Gambone, Tara Urs, and Neza Kogovsek.  Yolanda J. Revilla, coordinator for the International Justice program, and Andrea Holley, manager of outreach and publications, prepared this report for publication. 

Human Rights Watch is grateful to all the individuals who provided information for this report, particularly staff at the Special Court for Sierra Leone and defense counsel who represent accused at the Special Court, some of whom we interviewed several times.  Human Rights Watch would also like to acknowledge the International Center for Transitional Justice and the Coalition for International Justice, whose monitoring efforts in relation to the Special Court served as a useful resource for Human Rights Watch.

The International Justice program would like to express appreciation for contributions provided by Mr. Allen Adler, the Joseph and Edith Fischer Family Foundation, the Redlich Horwitz Foundation, the Norman Hirschfield Foundation, and the Edward T. Cone Foundation to support the program’s work on justice in Sierra Leone.  Additionally, we would like to thank The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Planethood Foundation, and the Third Millennium Foundation for their support of the International Justice program.




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