Swiss court confirms historic war crimes ruling against Liberia warlord
Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters A Swiss court on Thursday upheld a guilty verdict for war crimes in the case of a former Liberian rebel commander and convicted him of crimes against humanity in a landmark case. Alieu Kosiah, who fought in the 1990s against then-President Charles Taylor’s army, was sentenced to 20 years in prison in June, […]
Liberian rebel sentenced in Switzerland for war crimes, cannibalism
Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters A Liberian rebel commander was sentenced in Switzerland to 20 years in jail on Friday for rape, killings and an act of cannibalism, in one of the first ever convictions over the West African country’s civil war. The case was also Switzerland’s first war crimes trial in a civilian court. It involved 46-year-old […]