Witnesses angered by defence questions at war crimes trial

In court, Civilian 35 denied he was seeking any scholarship.

Massaquoi had been a close associate of Taylor. The court moved to Liberia last month to hear from Liberian witnesses and to view the scenes where the crimes are alleged to have taken place. In another line of questioning Gunmerus challenged how the witness’s was able to remember so many details of the events from nearly 20 years ago but then gave different dates to investigators from those he gave the court.

“I saw them in yellow t-shirts speaking Krio, and they had the slogan: ‘We will kill all, not one will leave,’” the witness said. The witness said Massaquoi ordered a man tied up and killed on a charge of spying. Another was butchered and the human meat given to a woman to cook pepper soup for the RUF fighters, he added.

He recalled the names of some of the soldiers as Zigza Marzah, Stanley, Mark Guan, Idrissa Massaley, Gibril Massaquoi alias “Angel Gabriel”, Alexander Zinnah, alias “Gen. Don’t Connive”, and Musa Kamara, alias “Spiderman”.

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