The plaintiff said Kosiah and other ULIMO commanders then butchered Ndiminin, ripped out his heart and ate it. “The highest-ranking officer on the ground that day was Alieu Kosiah,” the man told the three-judge panel hearing the case. The man, 51, is the third of seven alleged victims who brought the complaint against Kosiah, 45, for war crimes to testify in the trial. The war crimes trial, the first in a civilian court in Switzerland, finally began in December last year after being postponed four times over the coronavirus pandemic. Kosiah denies the offenses, adding that he was not in the northern county when the alleged crimes were committed.

Source: Front Page Africa February 18, 2021 08:48 UTC