The witness corroborated the testimony of earlier witnesses about a massacre in which scores of people were locked in a building and burned alive. He confirmed it was done on a Friday. “I know it was Friday, because I saw people praying in the mosque on that day,” he said, referring to the Muslim practice of Friday prayer.
Massaquoi’s trial is being held in the District Court of Tampere in Finland where he was relocated in exchange for his testimony against Charles Taylor and others in the war crimes prosecutions there. The witness told the court that “General Mosquito”, was killed by Benjamin Yeaten, a top Taylor commander known during the war as “50”. Mosquito’s body was flown to Monrovia onboard a helicopter to show to President Taylor so he knew it was really Burkarie’s body.
In another example, the witness told the court Burkarie had been murdered because he and his men were killing and terrorising the Liberian people. In the earlier police investigation interview, played for the court, he said Taylor told “50” to kill Burkarie because he could not afford for the UN to get to him first and reveal Taylor’s secrets regarding Sierra Leone.
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