Thursday, March 13, 2008

Former NPFL fighter alleges Taylor ordered atrocities in both Sierra Leone and Liberia.....


A former rebel from Liberia described the atrocities that he and and other fighters carried out under the command of Charles Taylor, at the Liberian ex-president's war crimes trial Wednesday in the Hague.

Joseph Marzah told judges at the Special Court for Sierra Leone how he personally had killed more than a hundred people during his time with Taylor's National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL) -- including babies.
"It's not hard," said Marzah. "You hit them against the wall, throw them in a pit, or in the river, and they are dead. And then you give the report to Charles Taylor."
Marzah said he had been part of a special unit that Taylor had set up called "No Baby on Target", adding: "He said we should execute any baby we saw. After we did that, he gave us money."
Fighters had also used knives to cut open pregnant women, he added.
Victims Of the Liberian and Sierra Leone civil war.



A father whos hands were chop of by the RUF in Sierra Leone trys to hold his daughter without any hands.




A rebel loyal to the warlord Charles Taylor poses next to a painted skull at his checkpoint, in Liberia .



Abu, 7, buttons the collar of his father's shirt at a camp for amputees outside Freetown, Sierra Leone. Abu Bakarr Kargbo, 31, is one of the thousands of victims of forced amputations performed by the Revolutionary United Front during Sierra Leone's 11-year civil war.



How can anybody do something like this to another person, is truly beyond words.

This asshole has to pay for what he did.

During the war in Liberia they would mount ambushes on civilians, said Marzah.
"At the checkpoint we used human intestines and sometimes put heads on sticks to scare people," he said. And the same thing went on in Sierra Leone, he added.
Both Sierra Leone's RUF rebels and the Liberian fighters of the NPFL operated under Taylor's command, he said.
There was no RUF as such, he said. "From Freetown to Liberia there was one organisation, all answering to Taylor."
Taylor was in constant touch with the RUF leaders by satellite telephone and radio links, said Marzah.
Some of those leaders frequently visited the Liberian capital Monrovia to deliver diamonds, receive their orders and pick up weapons.
Prosecutors accused Taylor of having amassed a 600-million-dollar (385-million-euro) fortune.
Marzah told the court Taylor ordered him to take arms to Sierra Leone rebels and exchange them for diamonds.
In the early 1990s he went to Sierra Leone some 40 times with transports carrying AK-47 assault rifles and rockets.
"Sometimes, we got ammunition from White Flower (Taylor's presidential residence) or a Russian plane," said Marzah, 49.
"By Charles Taylor's directive, I sometimes would take some straight to Sierra Leone," he added.
Asked by prosecutor Nicholas Koumjian if he ever saw diamonds, Marzah replied: "Many times. I escorted diamonds to Charles Taylor. He himself can tell you that if he tells the truth," he said.
He told the court he had personally brought some 10 to 15 consignments of diamonds to Taylor.
He recalled one diamond in particular that was around five centimetres (two inches) in diameter.
"At that time, we called (it) father'. When he took it along, Charles Taylor was impressed," Marzah said.

Here is a video of some of these savages atrocities in Liberia....

Taylor, 59, is accused of arming, training and controlling the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebels in Sierra Leone in exchange for still-unknown amounts of diamonds.
Around 120,000 people were killed in the conflict, and thousands more were raped and mutilated with rebels cutting off arms, legs, ears or noses.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

PERHAPS WE SHOULD ONLY LET WOMEN RULE COUNTRIES AS ALL THESE THOUSANDS OF YEARS OF MAN HAVE TAUGHT US NOTHING. I HAD RECENTLY READ BOOKS ON LIBERIA & SIERRA LEONE & DESPAIR HOW EVIL PEOPLE CAN MAKE HELL FROM PARADISE. I AM LUCKY TO LIVE IN A PEACEFUL PART OF THE WORLD . PEACE BE UPON YOU ALWAYS

Anonymous said...

these people(if thats what you can call them!)are fucking animals how can you do such things to another human being is beyond belief, i hope that everyone of theses so called humans who did such atrocities dies in the same ways as his victims, fucking scum

Anonymous said...

When will this war ends?????????

Anonymous said...

It is very true that men are all sinned... it is sad enough to hear people just like you and me to experience those atrocities and it almost makes me cry everytime. Sometimes I just want to avoid it by pretending there is nothing like those and only live my life as we are all selfish within and we feel helpless about those things. May God help and heal those who are wounded deeply and help us to forgive those who have sinned. Peace to the world.

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