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Liberia: ‘Angel Gabriel’ Raped and Abducted Women, Killed People Looking for Food Liberia: ‘Angel Gabriel’ Raped and Abducted Women, Killed People Looking for Food Share MONROVIA, Liberia – Witnesses in the ongoing trial of Gibril Massaquoi for war crimes fleshed out the charge of rape in Tuesday’s hearings. Two witnesses told the Finnish court that ‘Angel Gabriel’, as they said he called himself, took women as hostages in a room in the Waterside area of Monrovia and referred to them as “his women”. By Lennart Dodoo with New Narratives Women who were not selected for rape ...

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. Share Republish × You are free to republish this article both online and in print. We ask that you follow some sim...

A Finnish court began hearing witness testimony in Liberia's capital Monrovia on Tuesday, as part of a first-of-its-kind war-crimes trial in the country. The court is sitting in the West African state for a case against Gibril Massaquoi, a former senior member of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), a Sierra Leone rebel group that also fought in Liberia. Massaquoi, a Sierra Leonean national, has lived in Finland since 2008, but was arrested...

MONROVIA, Feb 23 — A Finnish court was to begin hearing witness testimony in Liberia’s capital Monrovia today, an AFP journalist said, as part of a first-of-a-kind war-crimes trial in the country. The court is in the West African state for a case against Gibril Massaquoi, a former senior member...

A Finnish court was to begin hearing witness testimony in Liberia's capital Monrovia on Tuesday, an AFP journalist said, as part of a first-of-a-kind war-crimes trial in the country. An official close to the Finnish case told AFP that the court will interview three witnesses at an undisclosed location in Monrovia on Tuesday.