According to the indictment, the former powerful warlord became an accomplice of a “massive and systematic practice of inhuman tortures or acts”.
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Who is really Kutunta Kamara? Accused of complicity of crimes against humanity, the man with a smooth skull who compared to the assizes of the Paris court since Monday October 10 has nothing, apparently, of a rebellious African chief, of a powerful lord of war . With his dark jeans and his black down jacket, the Liberian with a puny silhouette – he measures 1.64 m – presents himself every day in the accused box by looking at the courtroom with a smile, sometimes saluting a knowledge or a gendarme Having already crossed paths.
“Mr. Kamara is a respectful, intelligent, discreet and sometimes withdrawn man”, testifies at the helm Stéphanie Thiebaut, in charge of the personality investigation of the accused arrested in 2018 in Bobigny (Seine-Saint-Denis) where he was hosted with a compatriot.
Kutunta Kamara is the former commander of the Liberian rebel group of the United Liberation Movement of Liberia for Democracy (Ulimo) who, at the turn of the 1990s, was opposed to the National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL), directed By Charles Taylor? Aged now 47 years old, the one that his men nicknamed “Co Kutunta” (for “Commanding Officer Kunti”) is accused of having plunged “in a state of terror” the population of Lofa, a county rich in northern diamonds -Way of Liberia, during the First Civil War (1989-1996) which left 250,000 dead in this English-speaking country in West Africa.
According to the indictment, Kutunta Kamara became an “massive and systematic practice of inhuman torture or acts”. He would also have “tolerated” the collective rape of two young women repeatedly in the context of an inspired program “both by political and ethnic reasons” in order to terrorize the population and “guarantee the economic exploitation of the Lofa County by Ulimo “.
” Tabé torture “
Friday, October 14, the Assize Court of the Paris court went up time. She immersed herself in the darkness of a civil war marked by an escalation of atrocities “where, to give ourselves power, we tear the heart of a living man, we put it on fire and we eat it “, recalled Sabrina Delattre, lawyer for Civitas Maxima, an NGO at the origin of the complaint filed against Mr. Kamara in 2018, and whose aim is to fight against the impunity of international crimes.
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