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Bellinzona, Switzerland – Seven plaintiffs write a page of Swiss and Liberian history as Alieu Kosiah is convicted for crimes against humanity and war crimes.

After the failed prosecutions a few years back against former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo, then former Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, and former Deputy Prime Minister of the DRC Jean-Pierre Bemba, the ICC was close to becoming irrelevant.

On March 26, 2023, the spokesperson for the OAG of Switzerland confirmed that criminal proceedings were being initiated for the attack against Swiss press reporter Guillaume Briquet by an alleged Russian commando.

Ms. Agnes Reeves Taylor was charged in the UK with seven counts of torture and one count of conspiracy to commit torture in relation to her involvement with the rebel group NPFL during the First Liberian Civil War.

Bellinzona, Switzerland – The appeal proceedings of the case of Alieu Kosiah, a former United Liberation Movement of Liberia (ULIMO) commander, took place before the Swiss Federal Criminal Court (FCC) from January 11 to February 3, 2023.

The oral proceedings of  French trials surprised our columnist Alain Werner, director of Civitas Maxima, during the trial of Liberian warlord Kunti Kamara, which was just held in Paris.

The Paris ‘Cour d’assises’ rendered a guilty verdict against Kunti Kamara, of Liberian and Dutch nationality, for complicity in crimes against humanity, and commission of simple and aggravated acts of torture and barbarism.

They are accused – and convicted – of war crimes and crimes against humanity in West Africa, but do not recognize them, even partially, explains lawyer Alain Werner. Unless their lawyer accompanies them on the path of asking for forgiveness.

Outside the UN General Assembly, Iran has just reiterated that its national Hamid Nouri, former prosecutor and prison officer, was illegally convicted in Sweden this summer.

The Center for Justice and Accountability, along with its partners, have filed suit against the government of Liberia on behalf of survivors of a brutal 1990 massacre at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in Monrovia and a Liberian NGO.

The US government should stand with victims of civil wars-era crimes in Liberia by signaling its support for a war crimes court to deliver justice and to foster durable peace and stability in the country.

The case of Alieu Kosiah, sentenced to 20 years imprisonment for his role in the First Liberian civil war, will go in appeal in January 2023. The trial of Kunti K., also former ULIMO commander, will be tried in October 2022, in Paris, France.