The crimes were committed between 1993 and 1994, during the First Liberian Civil war that began in 1989 and ended in 1996. Kosiah has already spent over 8 years in prison during the trial ...

Ex-Liberian President Charles Taylor - one of the chief architects of the civil war's atrocities - was sentenced to 50 years in 2012 for a slew of war crimes and resides in a UK prison. The first ...

Until the first of those prosecutions, there had been little criminal accountability regarding actions in Liberia in the 1990s and 2000s, when two civil wars left an estimated 200,000 civilians dead.

Kamara’s fellow ULIMO comrade Alieu Kosiah was convicted of war crimes in ... Kunti Kamara’s trial. Liberia is still trying to recover from two civil wars — the first from 1989 to 1997 ...

Liberia's civil war forced thousands of people to flee Liberian President Joseph Boakai has signed an executive order to establish the country's first war crimes court, more than 20 years after ...

1985 - Doe wins presidential election. 1989-97 - First Liberian civil war. 1989 - National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL) led by Charles Taylor begins an uprising against the government.

HELSINKI, Jan 10 (Reuters) - A Finnish court of appeal began on Tuesday hearing an international war crime case in which a Sierra Leonean man is charged with murders, rapes and other atrocities ...

Former rebel convicted of rape, murder, cannibalism in 2021 Liberia has yet to prosecute war crimes from 1990s Swiss trial addresses war crimes for the first time BELLINZONA, Switzerland, Jan 11 ...

As he fed her, he described how he was separated from his family during the First Liberian Civil War when he was just 4 years old, and had to pretty much look after himself until he was reunited ...

1985 - Doe wins presidential election. 1989-97 - First Liberian civil war. 1989 - National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL) led by Charles Taylor begins an uprising against the government.