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PARIS, France – Day three of the war crimes trial of Liberian Kunti Kamara was all about setting the scene of Liberia’s civil war and the history that led up to it for the jury of six French citizens and three judges who will decide this case. The co ....
3 min read Monrovia – A woman told the Finnish court hearing the war crimes case of Gibril Massaquoi that the former rebel commander killed a pregnant woman to settle a bet with his men over the sex of the fetus. She said the incident happened in 2003 in Monrovia. “He brought a pregnant woman, and right away he and his boys started to argue whether the unborn child was a boy or girl,” the woman, identified as “Civilian 72,” the second witness, told the court on Tuesday. (The court has ordered journalists to conceal the witnesses’ identities for fear of reprisal and intimidation.) “Within no time, he opened the woman’s stomach right before us and took the child out and said ‘I told you this child was a girl.’” ....