Liberia: Victims in French trial tell of cannibalism, rape and torture by rebels

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The man, one of eight Liberian “civil parties” in the case testified that he had witnessed the torture and murder of the schoolteacher...

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A few days later when their mother did not return, the eldest daughter, 13, went out to look for food and was kidnapped by Ulimo. The woman later heard that her husband was tortured, murdered and his body parts eaten, and the daughter was gang raped. The witness said the rebels then danced around jubilantly. “Celebrating as if the heart that they pulled out of that man was of no value,” he told the court. Then took the heart to an area outside, cut it into pieces. “That was my first time seeing a human being eating another.”

“Liberia war was anarchy war,” MrKamara said. “So many things happened. I cannot prove anything I did not see. I have no experience about that.” Mr Kamara, who is 49 according to the birth date he gave to Dutch authorities when he claimed asylum in 2001, has admitted to being a frontline combatant with Ulimo but denies he took part in atrocities against civilians. Today he rocked back and forth in his glass box – put in place to protect him from attacks and prevent him from interacting with the court or victims – during the testimony.

 

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