By James Harding Giahyue, New Narratives Senior Justice Correspondent
BELLINZONA, Switzerland â The defense team of Alieu Kosiah has pointed to âerrorsâ and âcontradictionsâ between stories witnesses told Swiss investigators in the war crimes case and the testimonies they have given in court, saying the inconsistencies undermine the case against their client and the Swiss Federal Criminal Court should acquit their client.
Dmitri Gianoli, Kosiahâs main lawyer, told the court the stories of the seven Liberians that focused on crimes allegedly committed in Lofa by Kosiah and ULIMO rebels under his command, were different from what they told investigators in the case in the Swiss capital city of Bern in 2014. Furthermore, the witnesses did not agree with each other.
So Gionoli, with even Kosiah’s own witness making such damning revelations of BEST EVIDENCES AGAINST KOSIAH, you still want the court or others to give credence to your FRIVOLOUS ALIBIS even amid the direct evidence produced by his own witness and his victims that Kosiah committed his war crimes and crimes against humanity “in Tubmanburg, Lofa, Bong and Monrovia between 1992 and 1998“?
As others have also disputed YOUR ALIBIS about “When accusations are made against someone, those accusations must be credible and consistent, especially since the events took place more than 30 years ago in a distant land“, you ought to bear in mind that after thirty years, you sound unreasonable to expect a victim having gone through the worst of trauma to remember the exact time or the warring faction for which the Kosiah or any other fighter fought amid the presence of dozens of warring factions!!
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The defence team of Alieu Kosiah has pointed to “errors” and “contradictions” between stories witnesses told Swiss investigators in the war crimes case and the testimonies they have given in court, saying the inconsistencies undermine the case against their client and the Swiss Federal Criminal Court should acquit their client.
Dmitri Gianoli, Mr Kosiah’s main lawyer, told the court the stories of the seven Liberians that focused on crimes allegedly committed in Lofa by Mr Kosiah and ULIMO rebels under his command, were different from what they told investigators in the case in the Swiss capital city of Bern in 2014.