00:00Patrice Edouard Ngainsona, former head of the Central African Republic's Football Federation,
00:06found guilty of 28 war crimes and crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court.
00:13He and ex-militia commander Alfred Yekaton, known as Rambo, were accused of orchestrating
00:20brutal attacks on Karl's Muslim population between 2013 and 2014.
00:25Yekaton was found guilty of 20 charges. He's been sentenced to 15 years in prison,
00:32while Ngainsona received 12. The verdict caps off a nearly four-year-long trial,
00:37with more than 170 witnesses and 20,000 pieces of evidence presented.
00:44Both men led anti-Bakala militias, mostly Christian figures who rose up after Muslim
00:49Sakala rebels ceased power in 2013.
00:52Prosecutors say Ngainsona funded and directed the violence while Yekaton led attacks on civilians
00:59in Bangui in December of 2013, and half the capital fled.
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