Nigeria, March 3 -- Witnesses in the ongoing trial of Gibril Massaquoi for war crimes fleshed out the charge of rape in Tuesday's hearings. Two witnesses told the Finnish court that 'Angel Gabriel', as they said he called himself, took women as hostages in a room in the Waterside area of Monrovia and referred to them as "his women".

Women who were not selected for rape were killed with a message to God - "Tell Him, I, Angel Gabriel, sent you," a witness told the four-judge panel on Tuesday.

Mr Massaquoi, a former top commander of the Sierra Leonean ex-rebel group the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), is on trial in the European country of Finland where he had been granted asylum, for war crimes and crimes against humanity that he allege...