Liberia: Kosiah Challenges Legitimacy of “White” Court to Judge Him Over Liberian War Crimes

….. “The problem is not me, it’s the Swiss authorities,” Kosiah said under questioning from the Swiss appeal judges today. “Here in this audience, I only see white men, none of you knows Africa or knows what happens. You never went to Liberia to do any research.”

During the fourth day of interrogation of the plaintiffs in Alieu Kosiah’s appeal of his 2021 conviction for war crimes, the former Ulimo commander lashed out at the Swiss state that arrested him in 2014 and sentenced him to 20 years in…