Liberia: Former RUF Soldier Contradicts Other Defense Witnesses on When Massaquoi Moved into UN “Safe House”MONROVIA, Liberia—A former soldier of Sierra Leone’s Revolutionary United Front (RUF), has contradicted other defense witnesses about when an accused warlord from the country was taken into a UN “safe house.”By Varney Dukuly with New Narratives“Defense 10” told the Turku Court of Appeal of Finland that Gibril Massaquoi was taken into the house as a “protected witness” on March 10, 2002. But his testimony contradicts the testimonies of Massaquoi and other witnesses, who told both the district and appeal courts that the former RUF commander was taken into the safe house in 2003. But there was another point of contradiction in his testimony: He told the court that Massaquoi did not return to Liberia afterwards. But prosecutors reminded him that he had told the district court Massaquoi returned to Liberia in 2001 for his girlfriend. “Defense 20,” Tuesday’s other defense witness, was praiseful of Massaquoi for his service to the RUF.

Source: Front Page Africa May 10, 2023 07:09 UTC