Liberia War Crimes

MONROVIA, Liberia—Two former soldiers of Sierra Leone’s Revolutionary United Front (RUF), have distanced an ex-commander of the group from a notorious name that has been a key issue of his war crimes trial.
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MONROVIA, Liberia—A former soldier of Sierra Leone’s Revolutionary United Front (RUF), has contradicted other defense witnesses about when an accused warlord from the country was taken into a UN “safe house.”
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MONROVIA, Liberia—Another Defense witness has claimed before Finland’s Turku Court of Appeal in Monrovia that Gibril Massaquoi, a one-time commander with Sierra Leone’s Revolutionary United Front (RUF), did not fight in Liberia’s second…
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MONROVIA, Liberia—On the first day of the return of Finland’s Turku Court of Appeal to Liberia, all two defense witnesses said although an accused former Sierra Leonean warlord was in Liberia in 2001, it was only for “peace talks.”
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MONROVIA, Liberia — A Finnish appeal court is returning to Liberia this week after a brief return to Finland, to hear testimony from witnesses for a Sierra Leonean man accused of grave human rights violations in Liberia’s civil war.…
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MONROVIA, Liberia—A former soldier with Sierra Leone’s Revolutionary United Front (RUF), has disputed accounts of mainly prosecution witnesses that an ex-commander of the rebel group was called “Angel Gabriel.”
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MONROVIA, Liberia—Two defense witnesses have confirmed the accounts of other witnesses that an alleged Sierra Leonean warlord was in Liberia during its second civil war.
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MONROVIA, Liberia—"X-9,” as the Finnish Appeals Court co-named him, sounded regretful, when he reflected on what he claimed was the ruining of his life by the Sierra Leonean man facing prosecution for mass murder, rape, torture, and…
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MONROVIA, Liberia—A witness, claiming to be a former Liberian army soldier, has accused the Sierra Leonean man facing charges for alleged gross human rights violations in Liberia of ordering massacre at Waterside in Monrovia.
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MONROVIA, Liberia—As with the trial before a Finnish district court, acquittal hearings for Gibril Massaquoi, the Sierra Leonean accused of grave human rights violations in Liberia, bribery allegations begun to dog his acquittal…
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