Gibril Massaquoi in his first day in court in February in the Finnish city of Tampere. The group was heavily supported by former Liberian President Charles Taylor in the 11-year-long Sierra Leone Civil War. The witness also named RUF fighters “Mosquito”, “Sannoh”, Morris Kalon, Augustine Blamo, Ernest McCauley, Ibrahim Bah, “Sankara”, Issa Sesay and others who he said were all RUF fighters brought into Liberia to work for former President Charles Taylor. The witness told the Finnish Judges that most of the RUF activities in Liberia happened between 2000 to 2001. He said the RUF activities were mostly in Lofa County on the Liberian and Guinean border where RUF fighters were combatting rebels from LURD, another rebel faction.

Source: Front Page Africa March 11, 2021 08:37 UTC