瑞士最高法院維持具里程碑意義的賴比瑞亞戰爭罪裁決

作者：艾瑪・法奇By Emma Farge

日內瓦，10月30日（路透社）——瑞士最高法院週五確認對一名賴比瑞亞軍閥的有罪判決，維持他20年徒刑的判決。這是瑞士有史以來首宗戰爭罪審判。GENEVA, Oct 30 (Reuters) - The top Swiss court on Friday confirmed a guilty verdict against a Liberian warlord, upholding his 20 year sentence in the country's first ever war crimes trial.

阿利厄・科西亞（Alieu Kosiah）曾在1990年代賴比瑞亞殘酷內戰期間，與時任總統查爾斯・泰勒（Charles Taylor）的軍隊作戰。他最初於2021年6月因強暴、謀殺及食人行為被判處20年徒刑。Alieu Kosiah, who fought in the 1990s against then-president Charles Taylor's army during Liberia's brutal civil war, was originally sentenced to 20 years in prison in June 2021 for rape, murder and cannibalism.

聯邦刑事法院於2023年駁回先前一次上訴，而瑞士最高審判機關聯邦最高法院駁回他第二次上訴的裁定於週五公布，使本案就此定讞。An earlier appeal was rejected in 2023 by the Federal Criminal Court and the dismissal of his second appeal by Switzerland's highest tribunal the Federal Supreme Court published on Friday closes the case.

代表本案受害者的非政府組織Civitas Maxima主任阿蘭・韋爾納（Alain Werner）表示：「這是一項具里程碑意義的裁定，是這些受害者的勇氣讓它成為可能；他們寫下了法律史的一頁。」"This is a landmark decision, made possible by the courage of these victims, who have written a page of legal history," said Alain Werner, Director of Civitas Maxima, an NGO representing victims in this case.

不過，法院撤銷了另一起反人類罪的有罪判決，理由是2011年引入的這項罪行相關法律不得溯及既往適用。However, the court reversed a parallel conviction for crimes against humanity on the grounds that the law on this crime introduced in 2011 cannot be applied retroactively.

（艾瑪・法奇報導；芙麗德麗克・海涅編輯）(Reporting by Emma Farge, Editing by Friederike Heine)