“The problem is not me, it’s the Swiss authorities,” Kosiah said under questioning from the Swiss appeal judges today. “Here in this audience, I only see white men, none of you knows Africa or knows what happens. You never went to Liberia to do any research.”
The plaintiff told the court the motivation for this massacre and the murder of his cousin was simple. “Alieu Kosiah told the fighter “Mami Wata” that his brother had been killed in Zorzor. He was so furious that he and Ugly Boy started killing everyone around them.” Ugly Boy was a Ulimo commander whose role in Lofa atrocities has been detailed in this trial and that of his Ulimo ally Kunti Kamara, in France.
“If you are from Foya, you will never forget about this day,” he told the court. “People were killed like chicken or cows. I don’t want to go into too much detail or I will start crying.” A new witness claimed that since three witnesses came to Switzerland on behalf of Alieu Kosiah’s request their identities and participation in the trial were publicly revealed. Those individuals were brought in the first trial to prove that some of the victims named by the plaintiff were still alive even though homonyms are frequent in Liberia. In the judgment, the three magistrates were very critical of their testimonies, finding them not credible.