War crimes suspect Alieu Kosiah in the Swiss Federal Criminal Court in Bellinzona. New Narratives/Leslie LumehBELLINZONA, Switzerland – A Liberian women told the Swiss Federal Criminal Court prosecuting Alieu Kosiah for war crimes that the former rebel commander raped her four times in one night in Voinjama, Lofa County. “I heard them (rebels) calling him (Kosiah) ‘General Kosiah,’” she said, adding the dawn attack on the village was the first time she heard of Kosiah. She also said she had known the sixth plaintiff, who had told the court he knew her during the war. It is also the first war crimes trial in a Swiss civilian court in the medieval, mountainous city Bellinzona.

Source: Front Page Africa February 24, 2021 12:22 UTC