Starting this week in Freetown, Sierra Leoneans will miss a familiar sight they’ve grown used to. The resident battalion of Mongolian peace keepers in their khaki uniforms and blue berets are finally leaving the country. UN peacekeepers formally left the country in 2008 but the Mongolian Guard Force have protected the Special Court for Sierra Leone since January 2006 and managed the movements of high profile detainees like former RUF rebel leader Issa Sesay and former Liberian president Charles Taylor. Last week in a colourful ceremony, they handed over the Court’s security to the Sierra Leone Police.
Here’s a few pictures from the handover ceremony. Photographs courtesy Peter Andersen, Special Court for Sierra Leone
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