He is accused of conscription of child soldiers, slavery, murder, cannibalism, and other war crimes and crimes against humanity. Four other high-ranking Liberians have been accused of or indicted for war crimes in relation to the country’s civil war. Martina Johnson, former head of the NPFL’s artillery unit, is under house arrest while awaiting trial in Belgium, where she was arrested in September 2014 for war crimes. A London court, in December last year, dismissed a war crimes case against Agnes Reeves Taylor, the ex-wife of former President Charles Taylor. The father is serving a 50-year sentence in Britain for war crimes committed in Sierra Leone.

Source: Front Page Africa January 15, 2020 07:30 UTC