Mr Kosiah denies the charges, and Mr Gianoli says he was not in Lofa county between 1993 and 1994 when the alleged crimes were committed. The defence has stayed with that claim even after Mr Kosiah’s own defence witnesses testified that he was there at that time.
Presiding judge Jean-Luc Bacher will announce on Friday when the verdict will be handed down. It would normally take several months but the court will face pressure to bring that forward because of the long time Mr Kosiah has already been imprisoned while waiting for trial.Mr Gianoli devoted a significant portion of his final argument to attacking Civitas Maxima and the Global Justice and Research Project , which helped the plaintiffs bring their case here.
Mr Gianoli cited a case with the lone female plaintiff who alleges Kosiah raped her after raiding her village and killing her father and brother in the 1990s. He told the court the woman had said in her initial complaint in 2014 that she knew Kosiah was a ULIMO commander but said in her pretrial hearings in Bern later that she did not know the faction he belonged to.
“With the traumatic events experienced by the complainants, their statements should then be more precise and more constant over time. It is not so,” Gianoli told judges. He pointed to the repeated description of “pop eyes” a term used in Liberia to refer to people with large eyes. “The particularity of the pop eyes, which concerns 4% of the population in Liberia, is mentioned by all the complainants.
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