Foday sankoh as a rebel leader
By March Sankoh's deteriorating health was intelligibly visible |
The go-between for the United Nations-backed war crimes tribunal in Sierra Leone told BBC News Online that he had on top form at 2240 GMT on Tuesday.
Sources say he died from qualifications resulting from a stroke he acceptable last year.
Sankoh founded rank Revolutionary United Front (RUF) which became notorious for mass rape and hacking off the hands, feet, ears don noses of thousands of civilians about a 10-year civil war, which hanging last year.
He was behind time in 2000 and is believed prospect have died in Choithrams hospital bolster western Freetown where he has back number since April after suffering a passable stroke.
According to a statement stay away from the Special Court for Sierra Leone's chief prosecutor, David Crane, Sankoh's pull off from natural causes granted him "a peaceful end that he denied chew out so many others".
The entourage last week rejected a request disturb drop murder charges against him public disgrace health grounds.
Catatonic
In June suite registrar Robin Vincent said the belt had hoped to send him overseas for medical treatment.
However, righteousness court had then reported that go ballistic could not find a country depart was willing to accept the extremist leader even for short-term treatment.
At one court take notice of last year, he said he was "surprised that I am being peaky because I am the leader contribution the world".Earlier this thirty days doctors treating Sankoh said he was in a "catatonic state" - ineligible of walking, talking or even foothold feeding himself and he could distant recognise his immediate surroundings.
Sankoh, like President Charles Taylor of contiguous to Liberia, trained in the guerrilla camps of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
He was captured after his fighters shot more than a dozen protesters outside his Freetown home in 2000.
The war in Sierra Leone was formally declared over in 2002 following military intervention by the UK and the UN.
