Liberia: Prosecution Appeal Witnesses Accuse Massaquoi of Mass Killings but Give Inconsistent Dates

Monrovia — The first witness took the stand on Wednesday in the Liberia hearings of the appeal of former Revolutionary United Front commander Gibril Massaquoi’s 2022 acquittal on charges of war crimes. The woman, whose identity is being withheld for her security, told the three-judge panel of the appeal court which has relocated from Finland for the hearings, that her sister was killed on the order of Massaquoi under the bridge near Waterside market.

The witness said she and her sister had gone…