Judges at the International Criminal Court sentenced former Central African Republic militia leaders Patrice-Edouard Ngaïssona and Alfred Yekatom to 12 and 15 years in prison respectively for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the country’s 2013–14 conflict. Ngaïssona, a former head of the Central African football federation, was convicted on 28 counts and Yekatom, a onetime army captain and parliamentarian known as “Rambo,” on 20. The charges included murder, torture and the persecution of the nation’s Muslim population. The verdict followed a four-year trial that heard testimony from more than 170 witnesses and reviewed almost 20,000 pieces of evidence. The court found that the two men helped coordinate anti-Balaka militias that launched reprisals after the predominantly Muslim Séléka rebels seized power in 2013, plunging the majority-Christian country into sectarian violence. The case is the ICC’s first judgment stemming from the Central African Republic’s decade-long civil conflict.