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...Silva, in declaring the sentences, coldly described the mercenaries as "dogs of war with bloodstained muzzles who left a trail of rape, murder and pillage across the face of our nation." Four men were condemned to death: Costas Georgiou, 25, the notorious Cypriot-born Briton who, as "Colonel Tony Callan," had ordered 13 of his own men shot; Andrew McKenzie, 25, Georgiou's second in command, who had helped execute the men; John Derek Barker, 35, another Briton; and Gearhart. The other nine, including two Americans, Gary Acker, 21, of Sacramento, Calif., and Gustavo Grillo, 27, of Jersey City...
...captured in the northern part of the country last February, who were accused in a 139-part indictment of more than 100 assorted crimes against the Angolan people during the recent civil war. Ten of the defendants were British, including the notorious Costas Georgiu, 25, also known as "Colonel Callan." In addition there were three Americans−Daniel Gearhart, 34, of Kensington, Md., Gary Acker, 21, of Sacramento, Calif., and Argentine-born Gustavo ("Gus") Grillo, 27, a resident of Jersey City...
...British mercenaries' basic defense was that they merely acted under the orders of Callan, who on the second day of the trial had in fact accepted the blame for any crimes committed by his subordinates. "Anything they are charged with is my responsibility," the swaggering former paratrooper told the tribunal. "I don't want to answer any more questions, O.K.? I've made my statement...
...trial ended, Callan once more insisted that he was responsible for ordering the murders. Andrew McKenzie, 25, who lost his left leg in an explosion during the civil war, was accused of helping to execute 13 other mercenaries who refused to join a firing squad. He said that Callan "told me that if I didn't do it I'd be joining the victims." McKenzie's defense was directly challenged by one prosecution witness, a former F.N.L.A. soldier, who testified that both Callan and McKenzie had forced a group of Roberto's troops to strip naked...
Copeland, who had served in Britain's Parachute Regiment, was ordered court-martialed by F.N.L.A. Leader Holden Roberto, and shot by a firing squad. "Callan" reportedly escaped and hid out in the bush, nursing a leg wound. The British mercenaries called him "completely ruthless" and a "homicidal maniac." They said he spent much of his time shooting black tribesmen just...