The Netherlands has pledged an additional one million euros for the UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone, caretaker Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen has announced.
Since the court's creation in 2002, The Hague has contributed over 21 million euros, making the Netherlands one of its main donors.
The tribunal was set up to try those responsible for the brutalities carried out between 1995 and 2002 during the West African country's civil war.
Foreign Minister Verhagen stressed it was important the tribunal continued combatting impunity: "Those who commit crimes against humanity must know they will in the long run not go free."
The Special Court for Sierra Leone has its seat in Freetown, the country's capital. For security reasons, the trial of former President Charles Taylor has been move to The Hague.
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