Nigeria, Feb. 18 -- Alieu Kosiah commanded rebels in mid-1993 to kill a schoolteacher in Foya, Lofa County, and eat his heart, according to testimony in Mr Kosiah's war crimes trial on Wednesday in this Swiss Alpine city.

The allegation was made by a man, one of the seven victims known in the case as plaintiffs, who brought the complaint against Mr Kosiah, a former general of United Liberation Movement of Liberia for Democracy (ULIMO).

New Narratives has agreed to the plaintiffs' request to conceal their identities because they fear retaliation.

The plaintiff told the three-judge panel of the Swiss Federal Criminal Court that he was a resident of Foya from 1993 to 1995, when ULIMO occupied the district.

He said he witnessed Mr Kosiah ...