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Prosecutor pushes court to convict, jail and sanction Kosiah


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Prosecutor pushes court to convict, jail and sanction Kosiah
Mr Kosiah is alleged to have recruited a 12-year-old boy in 1992 in Bomi County and used him as child-soldier throughout the first half of the civil war.
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Alieu Kosiah should be convicted of all the war crimes charges he faces, jailed for a maximum 20 years and then barred from entering Switzerland for 15 years, prosecutors said on Monday in their final argument four days to the end of the historic trial.
Chief prosecutor Andreas Müller told the Swiss Federal Criminal Court Mr Kosiah was guilty of the 25 counts of murder, cannibalism, rape, sexual enslavement, forced transportation, looting and recruitment of child-soldier. He told the three-judge panel that Mr Kosiah killed for power and looted for wealth. ....

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Why Finland is holding a war crimes trial in Liberia


Why Finland is holding a war crimes trial in Liberia
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An estimated 250,000 people died in the fighting between 1989 and 2003
Tales of atrocities dominate accounts of Liberia s years of civil war but not a single person has been tried for war crimes in the country s courts.
This is despite the estimated 250,000 dead - amounting to around 8% of the population at the time - and survivors willing to testify about the conflicts from 1989 to 1997 and 1999 to 2003.
On Tuesday, in an unprecedented move, a war crimes case is due to be heard in the capital, Monrovia. But this will be a Finnish court holding a special session, not part of the Liberian judicial process. ....

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Liberia's long wait for justice - Foreign


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Liberia’s back-to-back civil wars were some of the bloodiest in African history, leaving an estimated 250,000 dead after 14 years of appalling bloodshed.
Although the fighting ended in 2003, very few of those responsible for war crimes have been tried.
The conflicts were marked by mass murders, rape and mutilations, with warlords using child soldiers.
Atrocities against civilians were common with drugged-up fighters chopping off people’s limbs.
No one has been prosecuted in Liberia itself, with many of the most guilty still powerful figures there.
But cases are underway in other countries, with Finland putting Gibril “Angel Gabriel” Massaquoi a Sierra Leone rebel who fought in Liberia on trial Wednesday accused of murder, rape and recruiting children. ....

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