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A woman cried on Wednesday as she testified to a Swiss court that a former Liberian rebel commander had raped her repeatedly during the country’s civil war, on the first day of his appeal to overturn 22 convictions for war crimes.

[File Image] A woman protests in front of the Bangladesh parliament building over rising incidents of rape in the country.[File Image] A woman protests in front of the Bangladesh parliament building over rising incidents of rape in the country.

The public left the courtroom to allow a plaintiff, who said she was raped by Kosiah at the age of 14, to continue her testimony. “I was told I would be his wife,” she told the court. “If I didn’t go , he would have killed me. He forced me four times.” During Liberia’s back-to-back wars between 1989-2003 thousands of people were mutilated and raped in clashes that involved drugged fighters and marauding child soldiers conscripted by warlords.

 

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