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Sierra Leone

Gibril Ealoghima Massaquoi

Date of Birth: 17 October 1969
Place of Birth: Kenema, Sierra Leone


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War crimes trial divides justice-seekers

In a move which has divided human rights activists and campaigners for the punishment for war criminals Gibril Massaquoi once the spokesman for Sierra Leone's sanguinary Revolutionary United Front (RUF) is on trial in Finland for war crimes despite having been granted sanctuary there in a witness relocation programme...

Bility told Africa Confidential however 'I spoke about Angel Gabriel in my testimony at the Special Court back in 2009 many years before any case against Gibril Massaquoi and years before my organisation the Global Justice and Research Project was formed...

Tale of a turncoat Gibril Massaquoi's tortuous journey from warlord to prosecution witness to defendant began in 1991 in the town of Pujehun close to the border with Liberia where he was a schoolteacher when the town was overrun by the Revolutionary United Front (RUF)...

The long arm of international law Alain Werner's Civitas Maxima and its Liberian partner Hassan Bility's Global Justice and Research Project were prime movers in getting Gibril Massaquoi prosecuted in Finland...


Kabbah's cabal

Its fighters championed by former spokesman Gibril Massaquoi accused General Issa Sesay of defrauding the organisation of diamond money...


Precarious calm

Its strongest candidate and spokesman Gibril Massaquoi had too little backing in the ranks...


Masters of war

Pattison said Taylor and Compaoré had been directing strategy meetings with RUF commanders including Issa Sesay Gibril Massaquoi Morris Kallon and Augustin Gbow (all Sierra Leone-based); Sam 'Masquita' Bockarie and Edward Kanneh (Liberia); and Ibrahim Bah (Burkina)...


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