State radio reported that a court had sentenced 15...

State radio reported that a court had sentenced 15 people to death for instigating ethnic and religious bloodletting which killed 34 people in the West African country in the year 2000.
The high court of the Kankan region, which pronounced the verdicts, sentenced 19 other defendants to various jail terms. Another 40 were acquitted for lack of evidence.
The defendants had faced charges including murder and conspiracy in connection with the bloody clashes between rival Muslim Torma Manian and Christian Torma tribal groups in the Southeastern town of Korneseredou.