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Liberia: Dogolea's Crimes
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The Analyst (Monrovia)
DOCUMENT
19 March 2008
Posted to the web 19 March 2008
If the saying: "A truth crushed to the ground shall rise up" is anything to go by, then the rumors that inundated that former Vice President Enoch Dogolea died from beating holds ground. This is evidence by revelations made someone who claimed to have participated in his torture.
Witness Joseph D. "Zigzag" Marzah during cross-examination by the defense confessed that former President Taylor ordered the beating of his Vice President Enoch Dogolea because he was allegedly liaising with the American government. The Analyst brings you details of his cross-examination.
Joseph D. "Zigzag" Marzah has recounted that former Vice President Enoch Dogolea died from the beating he endured upon the orders of his former boss, former President Charles Taylor.
Dogolea died in 2000 in an Ivorian clinic following an ephemeral sickness. Following his death, speculations inundated that he died from beating. Responding to questions from the defense of accused Charles Taylor, he did not waiver nor slumber.
Excerpts From his cross-examination
Def: There are a couple of matters to clear up before I put my case to you. You told us about the beating to death of Vice President Enoc Dogoleleh?
Wit: Yes.
Def: You were involved in that?
Wit: Yes, I told you Taylor said Dogoleleh was trying to liaise with the American government. Taylor passed orders to Yeaten in my presence. They pretended to travel together. They took Dogolea in a tinted car and took him to Yeaten's, where he was beaten. Yeaten kept him there for three days.
Def: When was that?
Wit: I can't remember the time ... When Taylor was president in Monrovia.
Def: At Yeaten's address?
Apart from his revelations as to what happened to Dogolea, witness Marzah also encountered questions on other issues he raised in his testimony
Def: you were telling us that you're a substantial property owner and businessman?
Wit: Yes.
Def: Did you get the money to set up that business from arms dealing?
Wit: No.
Def: Where did you get it from?
Wit: I got it from serving the government. And my wife is a businesswoman, and I have my own credit union.
Def: You set up that business solely from your earnings as a soldier under Doe and Taylor?
Wit: What I have is what my wife controls. My business and my wife's business are not separate.
Def: You told us she has a large business. What kind?
Wit: She sells dry goods and palm oil from our palm oil factory. Apart from that we have cement she sells by bags. We sell rice and dry goods. Apart from that we have our own credit union and we have over 78 people who contribute towards it. We take the money from the credit union to buy goods and make more profit. People own credit in the club. They get profit from what they give. Those are some of the businesses. During Taylor's regime, we even fought the war from Nimba up to Buchanan. Any safe we took by his directive we took to him. We took 7 safes from RIA airport to Taylor in Gbarnga. He gave me over 87,000 US dollars. Mosquito used to give me up to 1million Leones when we brought diamonds.
Def: You made money from the Sierra Leone war?
Wit: Yes, through Charles Taylor.
Def: So the 3,417,000 in local currency given to you by the prosecution is not much for you?
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Wit: I did not receive 3 million from anybody.
Def: These are the prosecution records. You've received [reads a series of figures in different figures]. That's not a lot of money to you?
Wit: I did not receive such an amount. What I received, I will tell you if it is true. What I get was through myself and the struggle behind Charles Taylor. When we took the big diamond to Taylor he gave me an envelope with 2,000 dollars in it.
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