A Sierra Leonean businesswoman testifying for Charles Taylor said today that while she helped Sierra Leonean rebels during the country’s 11 years civil conflict, she did not assist Mr. Taylor’s rebel forces in Liberia during its own war. Lead prosecutor, Brenda Hollis, today sought to establish that the witness, Isatu Kallon, was an influential figure and provided assistance to both the [...]
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A witness for Charles Taylor said today that she neither saw nor heard any evidence that the former Liberian president provided support to Sierra Leonean rebels during the country’s 11-year civil conflict. The witness also dismissed the evidence of key prosecution witnesses who testified about Mr. Taylor’s links to the rebel forces in Sierra Leone as [...]
A woman who said she helped the Sierra Leonean rebels during the country’s 11-year brutal war today said she also persuaded them to come out of the bush and join disgruntled Sierra Leonean soldiers who had overthrown their government in a military coup in 1997. Isatu. Kallon today told the Special Court for Sierra [...]
A Sierra Leonean woman who helped top Sierra Leonean rebels in recruiting and training fighters in Liberia this week told Special Court for Sierra Leone that as far as she knew, Charles Taylor’s name was never mentioned as one of those helping to recruit and train rebels to invade Sierra Leone in 1991. The witness also [...]
Rebel forces fighting to take power in Sierra Leone from 1991 to 2002 used the country’s diamonds to purchase arms and ammunition from military officers in neighboring Guinea, a defense witness for Charles Taylor told Special Court for Sierra Leone judges today in The Hague. Isatu Kallon, a Sierra Leonean woman who helped Revolutionary United [...]
June
17
2010
ECOMOG Peacekeepers Were Involved In Business Transactions And I Bought Diesel From Them For The RUF, Witness Says
West African peacekeepers sold diesel supplies to Sierra Leonean rebel forces as they prepared to launch an attack on their country from Liberia in the early 1990s, a defense witness for former Liberian president, Charles Taylor, told the Special Court for Sierra Leone today. Isatu Kallon, a Sierra Leonean woman who was based in Liberia [...]
A woman who helped top Sierra Leonean rebels recruit and train fighters in Liberia in the early 1990s today said that Charles Taylor was not involved in that effort as far as she knew. Her testimony contradicts prosecution allegations that the former Liberia president backed rebel forces as they planned to invade Sierra Leone in [...]
June
14
2010
Former Liberian Vice President’s Wife Ends Testimony
The wife of Liberia’s former vice president today maintained her testimony that her husband’s death was from illness, not from torture at the hands of Charles Taylor’s security forces as prosecutors have alleged. She told the Special Court for Sierra Leone today that her husband’s illness got worse after he was treated with traditional medicines [...]
The widow of Charles Taylor’s former Vice President today testified that she was never told that her husband died from torture administered by Liberian security forces on Mr. Taylor’s orders. Her husband’s serious illness, the witness said, was instead the cause of his death. Enoch Dogolea was Mr. Taylor’s Vice President when he (Taylor) became [...]
