QUITE RECENTLY, a Finnish court commenced the trial of Gibril Massaquoi, a Sierra Leonean accused of war crimes allegedly committed in Liberia between 2001 and 2002. The charges associated with the alleged war crimes were brought against him in a Finnish court. IN NOVEMBER 2020, the investigating judge in his closing order had requested the indictment of Kunti K. for crimes of torture and barbaric acts. KUNTI K.’S TRIAL will be the first in France, since the establishment of the French war crimes division in 2012, not connected to the 1994 Rwandan genocide. LIBERIA’S FAILURE to take issues of accountability for war crimes seriously is simply adding to a rising sense of impunity.

Source: Front Page Africa April 05, 2021 07:07 UTC