18. Whereas the slowness in the process of the liquidation of Sierra National Airlines was independent of Defendants, but rather, intimately connected to the long administrative and parliamentary procedures; 19. Whereas Defendants equally argue that most of the Plaintiffs/Applicant have been adequately compensated, and that a court pronouncement was made, lately, ordering that those of Plaintiffs/Applicants that are yet to be taken care of, should be fully compensated; 20. Whereas Defendants finally point out that the process of liquidating Sierra National Airlines was initiated, pursuant to a court judgment dated 21 October 2011, and that, on this premise, Sierra National Airlines should not be cited as party to the instant case, because, as a corporate body, it is different from the State of Sierra – Leone. III – Legal analysis by the Court. A – On the appropriateness of the claims made by Plaintiffs/Applicants 21. Taking cognizance of the fact that in their initiating Application, filed before the Court, Plaintiffs/Applicants invoke, essentially, the Constitution of Sierra – Leone, Article 27 (a) and (b) of the Statutes of the Defendant known as Sierra National Airlines, and a certain number of international legal instruments, among which are the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights. They also allege the violation of a certain number of civic and socio – economic rights, such as the right to fair hearing, within reasonable period, the right to own property, and the right to just and equitable compensation; 22. The Court finds, straightaway, the irrelevance of the domestic texts invoked by the Applicant, like the citing of the Constitution of Sierra Leone; in principle, the Court restricts itself to examining disputes on human rights violation submitted 8

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