Liberia, Feb. 20 -- BELLINZONA, Switzerland - Alieu Kosiah sat near a bucket filled with human hearts in Foya, Lofa County in the mid-1990s, a man told the Swiss Federal Criminal Court prosecuting the former rebel commander on Friday.
By James Harding Giahyue, New Narratives Senior Justice Correspondent
According to the man, the fifth of seven plaintiffs who have brought the war crimes case against Kosiah, another rebel named "Mammie Wata," told him, "'What you see in the bucket are human hearts and they are for Kosiah."
Kosiah, 45, is on trial in Switzerland for war crimes he allegedly committed in Lofa County in the early to mid 1990s. A former high-ranking office of the United Liberation Movement of Liberia for Democracy (ULIMO), he i...