Emotions halt hearing in Massaquoi war crimes trial

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A witness, codenamed Civilian 27, told the court her son was tied up and killed by men under Massaquoi’s command.

“We were in Babarhun when the soldiers told us that they were acting on orders and their commander was coming,” she told the court. “He came on a jeep, and when he got down, he said he did not want to see a living thing. We were all afraid, and in my presence, they killed two persons. The commander called his name as “Angel Gabriel”, and that was Gabriel Massaquoi. He called his name to us and said he was next to God.

The RUF and Taylor’s National Patriotic Front for Liberia had been close throughout the conflict in both countries with Taylor financing RUF activities in return for diamonds from Sierra Leone mines. Victims’ advocates Civitas Maxima and Global Justice Research Project presented Finnish police with evidence of his crimes in Liberia leading him to be charged with those crimes and arrested in March 2020.

On Thursday another witness, codenamed Civilian 18, recalled 2001 as a year he experienced one of the worst parts of the war when his wife Sangay, and sister Ganbo, were both shot dead while distilling palm oil on their farm in Kortonhum.

 

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