Sierra Leone
Practice Relating to the Prohibition of Certain Types of Landmines
Sierra Leone’s Instructor Manual (2007) provides: “It is prohibited to … [u]se anti-personnel landmines.”
Sierra Leone, The Law of Armed Conflict. Instructor Manual for the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces (RSLAF), Armed Forces Education Centre, September 2007, p. 44; see also p. 19.
Sierra Leone voted in favour of the UN General Assembly resolutions supporting a ban on anti-personnel mines adopted in 1996, 1997 and 1998. In September 1997, the Foreign Minister, Shirley Gbujuma, told Human Rights Watch that the government in exile would sign the Ottawa Convention on Anti-Personnel Mines.
Landmine Monitor Report 1999: Toward a Mine-Free World, available at http://www.the-monitor.org/index.php/publications/display?act=submit&pqs_year=1999&pqs_type=lm&pqs_report=sierra_leone&pqs_section=; Interview, London, 15 September 1997.
