Mostly civilian villagers, prosecution witnesses brought with them stories of cannibalism, sexual enslavement and beheadings. One said Jabbateh sliced a baby from a pregnant woman’s stomach and strung her intestines up as rope. Another recalled that Jabbateh in 1994 ordered his soldiers to kill a town chief whose heart was then boiled and eaten. “Jabbateh sought to escape to the United States and start anew, where he lied about his extensive and horrific criminal background on federal immigration forms and to the faces of U.S. immigration officers,” Acting United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen wrote in a statement. “Jabbateh committed atrocities in Liberia that ravaged communities in ways that will be felt for generations.”Read more of this articleSource: AP/ABC News(Visited 8 times, 8 visits today)Commentscomments

Source: GNN Liberia October 18, 2017 22:07 UTC