MONROVIA, March 6 -- A prosecution witness in Friday's session of the war crimes trial of Gibril Massaquoi showed the Finnish court a scar on his arm that he said was the result of a bullet fired at him by rebels under Massaquoi's command as he tried to rescue a friend who had been gunned down in the Waterside Market.
Report by Lennart Dodoo, with New Narratives
The witness, code named "Civillian 77" by the court to protect him from retaliation and intimidation, said that incident happened in 2001. He and his friend "George" had gone to the Waterside market in search of goods to buy and sell. Fighting between the forces of LURD and the government of President Charles Taylor had shut down the city and almost every basic commodity had becom...