The trial of a suspected warlord accused of atrocities during Liberia’s civil war has started in Finland.
Prosecutors say Gibril Ealoghima Massaquoi, from Sierra Leone, was a senior member of a rebel group that fought in Liberia from 1999 to 2003.
He is accused of killing civilians and soldiers who had just been disarmed, rape and recruiting child soldiers.
Massaquoi denied the charges and said he was taking part in peace talks at the time of the alleged crimes.
Some 250,000 people were killed in the Liberian conflict, which was intertwined with the war in neighbouring Sierra Leone. (BBC)
