By James Harding Giahyue, New Narratives Senior Justice Correspondent
BELLINZONA, Switzerland â War crimes suspect Alieu Kosiah delivered a forceful rebuke to six plaintiffs who brought the war crimes case against him here in the Swiss Federal Criminal Court on Monday. He slammed the plaintiffs and their lawyers for âstaging their testimoniesâ and âlying on himâ.
âWhen there is war, the first victim is the truth. That is the only thing I can tell you,â he told the three-judge panel.
Kosiahâs anger at being on trial here was focused on the plaintiffsâ lawyers as they asked him to respond to chilling and detailed evidence the six men had given last week. The men had accused Kosiah of murdering civilians, forcing them to carry looted goods and eating human hearts among other atrocities.
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Kosiah killed teenage boy on ‘Black Monday’, witness tells judges
Black Mondays only ended when Kosiah’s superiors in the United Liberation Movement of Liberia for Democracy (ULIMO) ordered him to stop the killings, the plaintiff said. 5 min read
War crimes suspect Alieu Kosiah shot and killed a teenage boy in Voinjama in 1994, a man claiming to have witnessed the incident, told the Swiss Federal Criminal Court on Saturday.
The 43-year-old the sixth of seven “plaintiffs” to testify to Kosiah’s guilt since his trial began in December last year told the three presiding judges that Kosiah led a gang of rebels on a weekly killing spree, a routine that he called “Black Monday.”
By James Harding Giahyue, with New Narratives Senior Justice Correspondent
BELLINZONA, Switzerland â War crimes suspect Alieu Kosiah shot and killed a teenage boy in Voinjama in 1994, a man claiming to have witnessed the incident, told the Swiss Federal Criminal Court on Saturday.
The 43-year-oldâthe sixth of seven âplaintiffsâ to testify to Kosiahâs guilt since his trial began in December last yearâtold the three presiding judges that Kosiah led a gang of rebels on a weekly killing spree, a routine that he called âBlack Monday.â Kosiah invented the weekly killings of civilians as retaliation for the death of one of his men at a battle with the Lofa Defense Force, a militia formed to avenge their kinsmen, in Zorzor.