Liberia: 'Stabbed and Beaten to Death' - Witness Testifies Taylor Ordered Brutal Murder of RUF Leader Bockarie

"Taylor sent Benjamin Yeaten to Ganta to put things under control... Yeaten's deputy was the first that stabbed Bockarie on the back. He escaped in a cocoa farm but was overpowered and beaten to death." - Witness X5

MONROVIA, Liberia - A witness testifying before a Finnish Court in the ongoing war crimes trial of Gibril Massaquoi has told judges that the former Sierra Leonean rebel leader Sam Bockarie was shot, stabbed and beaten to death by Benjamin Yeaten, then-Liberian President Charles Taylor's Director of Special Security Service(SSS) on Taylor's orders. The incident occurred in 2003 in a village in Nimba County, the witness said.

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