By Lennart Dodoo, with New Narratives
MONROVIA, Liberia – Prosecutors stepped up their case against former RUF commander Gibril Massaquoi for war crimes on Wednesday putting a former bodyguard of Foday Sankoh, leader of the Revolutionary United Forces (RUF), on the stand who told the Finnish Court that RUF special fighters were sent into Liberia from 2000 to 2001 for a “diplomatic mission”. Massaquoi, he said, was one of them.
The prosecution witness, a Sierra Leonean codenamed Civilian 09 by the court to protect his identity, said he it was his job to receive RUF guests coming into Monrovia. He would receive them and transport them to their guest house in Congo Town.
Witness Links Gibril Massaquoi to RUF Activities in Liberia
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Witness links Massaquoi to RUF activities in Liberia
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Massaquoi trial: Finnish court goes to deepest Liberia
23 February 2021By Thierry Cruvellier, special envoy in Liberia
Arriving in Liberia on February 15, Finnish judges, prosecutors, and lawyers spent their first week visiting sites where Gibril Massaquoi, a former rebel commander from Sierra Leone, allegedly committed crimes against humanity. They went through sometimes epic events in the heart of the Liberian forest before hearings start in Monrovia on Tuesday, February 23.
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