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Liberia: Defence Witness Kosiah Dismisses Cannabalism Charge Against Kamara
FrontPageAfrica, 24 October 2022
Alieu Kosiah, convicted of war crimes in a Swiss court last year, appeared as a defense witness in the trial of Kunti Kamara, his one-time United Liberation Movement of Liberia for… Read more »
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Liberia: Accused Warlord Calls Plaintiffs Criminals in Paris War Crimes Trial
FrontPageAfrica, 28 October 2022
Kunti Kamara has lashed out at the ten plaintiffs in his trial for crimes against humanity here calling them "criminals" and professing his innocence on charges of cannibalism,… Read more »
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FrontPageAfrica, 20 October 2022
Kunti Kamara appeared to undermine his defense case in his trial on torture, cannibalism and crimes against humanity on Wednesday as he denied repeatedly that Ulimo had committed… Read more »
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Liberia: Child Soldier Confirms Forced Labor - As Kosiah Testifies Today in War Crimes Trial in Paris
FrontPageAfrica, 21 October 2022
A witness claiming to be a child soldier with Kunti Kamara has confirmed testimonies of over a dozen witnesses of forced labor by Kamara--one of the charges the former commander of… Read more »
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FrontPageAfrica, 19 October 2022
On Tuesday a third victim identified Kunti Kamara, on trial for torture, cannibalism and crimes against humanity in the Paris Court, as "Co Kundi" the rebel commander who allegedly… Read more »
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Liberia: Kamara Defense Challenges Prosecution of 30-Year-Old Crimes - French Reveal a Second Liberian Case
FrontPageAfrica, 14 October 2022
Day four of the war crimes trial of Kunti Kamara looked closely at the investigations in France and Liberia that produced evidence prosecutors are using in the case against the… Read more »
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Liberia: 'I Would Never Eat Human Heart,' Kamara Tells War Crimes Court
FrontPageAfrica, 18 October 2022
The former Ulimo commander Kunti Kamara, on trial here for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Liberia's civil wars, had his first chance to make a substantive response to… Read more »
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Liberia: Civil War Torture Trial of Rebel Commander Opens in Paris
RFI, 10 October 2022
A rebel commander during the first Liberian Civil War, Kunti Kamara goes on trial in Paris on Monday for crimes against humanity, torture, and acts of barbarity, including the… Read more »
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Liberia: A Culture of Impunity Reigns, Former TRC Commissioner Tells Paris War Crimes Court
FrontPageAfrica, 13 October 2022
Day three of the war crimes trial of Liberian Kunti Kamara was all about setting the scene of Liberia's civil war and the history that led up to it for the jury of six French… Read more »
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Liberia: Trial of Liberian Rebel for War Crimes Begins in France
FrontPageAfrica, 11 October 2022
Though the charges being considered in the trial that got underway here today are "barbarous" according to prosecutors, day one was a quiet affair with the presiding judge of the… Read more »
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Liberia: Liberia Atrocity Trial in France
HRW, 6 October 2022
Reform of French Universal Jurisdiction Laws Needed Read more »
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Liberia: UK Police Arrest a Man for Alleged Role in Liberia's Wars
FrontPageAfrica, 8 September 2022
United Kingdom police have arrested and detained a man in his 40s on war crimes charges for his alleged role in the Liberian civil war in the 1990s and early 2000s. Read more »
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Liberia: Swiss Court Announces Appeal Dates for Convicted Liberian War Criminal Kosiah
FrontPageAfrica, 22 September 2022
The Swiss Federal Criminal Court has announced dates to hear the appeal of convicted Liberian war criminal, Alieu Kosiah. In June 2021 the Court sentenced Kosiah to 20 years in… Read more »
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Liberia: Ex-LURD Gen. 'K-1' Arrested in U.S.
FrontPageAfrica, 30 March 2022
A once feared general of the LURD rebel group, Sekou Kamara, commonly known as "K-1" has been arrested in the US on immigration fraud charges. Read more »
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Liberia: Ulimo Commander Kunti K. Will Face Trial in France for Crimes Against Humanity
FrontPageAfrica, 5 April 2021
The investigating chamber of the Paris Court of Appeals confirmed the referral to trial in France of Kunti K., former Liberian commander of the United Liberation Movement of… Read more »
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Liberia: Momentum for Justice in Liberia
FrontPageAfrica, 20 April 2021
On Wednesday April 7, 2021, a Finnish court concluded the Gibril Massaquoi case hearings in Monrovia, Liberia, which began on February 23. 21 days of hearings, during which 55… Read more »
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Liberia: Viktor Bout for Brittney Grinner - A Prisoner Exchange That Forgets Liberia
JusticeInfo.net, 15 September 2022
Viktor Bout, born in former Soviet Union, was once the world's most infamous arms dealer. He was accused to have fueled many wars across the world, in particular in Liberia. In… Read more »
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Liberia: At War Crimes Trial in Switzerland, a Tearful Kosiah Admits to Being Founding Member of Ulimo
FrontPageAfrica, 5 December 2020
Alieu Kosiah, a former commander with the United Liberation Movement of Liberia (ULIMO) on trial for war crimes during the Liberian civil war, fought back tears in court Friday as… Read more »
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Liberia: 'Kosiah Ordered Teacher Butchered and Eaten', Court Hears
FrontPageAfrica, 19 February 2021
Alieu Kosiah commanded rebels in mid-1993 to kill a schoolteacher in Foya, Lofa County, and eat his heart, according to testimony in Kosiah's war crimes trial on Wednesday in this… Read more »