11:30 (12:00 with the delay in video and audio): Court has resumed following a break for the witness to recompose herself. It is not clear when it resumed, as there was a problem with the video/audio feed.
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Wit: When we were coming by the school, there were corpses on the ground. Most of the Karina people were among them.
Pros: Who were the people living in Karina at the time of this incident?
Wit: Some had come from Freetown, Kono and Makeni.
Pros: Why?
Wit: Because the juntas, during the intervention – they were killing and taking property – so many came to our village.
Pros: How large was the population of Karina?
Wit: The population was high. There was not enough room in the houses.
Pros: How many corpses did you see that day?
Def: Objection. She’s asking how many corpses she “would have seen”.
Wit: I saw many corpses. They were strewn in the street.
Pros: What happened at the school?
Wit: I saw my eldest sister’s child who was one year, six months old, going into the bush.
Pros: Why was she going into the bush?
Wit: They had captured her mother. She was crying.
Pros: Did you see her mother?
Wit: She was stripped naked and her hands were tied.
Pros: What happened?
Wit: They took me to another place and they laid me down to kill me. They were calling the boy to kill the knife. Then this other man saw it. The man came running and said, “you girl, open your eyes”. I opened my eyes. I asked about my tribe. I told him I was a Limba Mandingo. He said I was his eldest sister’s daughter.
Pros: Did you know this man?
Wit: No.
Pros: Were you his eldest sister’s daughter?
Wit: That is what he said, but I never knew him. He was a different Limba.
Pros: Who was this man? Don’t mention any names if it would identify you.
Wit: He was a junta.
Pros: Did you come to know why he said this?
Wit: Yes, he wanted to rape me.
Pros: What happened after that?
Wit: The people said they would not release me.
Pros: What happened then?
Wit: He said if they kill me, all the operation they had arranged would be dissolved.
Pros; Did he say anything else?
Wit: Yes.
Pros: What?
Wit: He took out a knife and cut the ropes that they used to tie the three of us. He said we should move.
Pros: You said that this man referred to you in the way he did so that he could rape you. Did anything happen to you at some point?
Wit: Yes.
Pros: What happened to you?
Wit: The man opened his bag and gave me a towel to tie around.
Pros: In relation to what you said about him wanting to rape you – did anything on those lines happen to you at some point?
Wit: At that point it did not happen, but I knew he wanted to take me as his wife and rape me.
Pros; Did that happen at some point?
Def: It’s two issues: did he take her as his wife or rape her?
Pros: I’ll clarify. When you say he wanted to take you as his wife, what do you mean?
Wit: He wanted to take me to rape me.
Pros: Were you raped at some point?
Wit: No.
Pros: What happened after this?
Wit: My father’s sister behind me had her menstrual period right away because of the shock. When she menstruated, they laughed at her and said she was leaking.
Pros: From the school area, did you move anywhere else?
Wit: Yes. We went by the river.
Pros: Did anything happen there?
Wit: Yes. They hacked my two brothers.
Pros: Who hacked your brothers?
Wit: The junta.
Pros; Where were you when this happned?
Wit: I was on the road and they were on the side.
Pros: Could you see them?
Wit: Yes. I was close by.
Pros: How old were they?
Wit: The one was 25 years and the other was 30.
Pros: What happened to your two brothers?
Wit: They said that one died and that the other is mad at the moment.
Pros: What do you mean by “mad at the moment”?
Wit: Where he was struck on his forehead, they said blood had gone to his brain.
Pros: From the river did you go anywhere else?
Wit: Yes, we went by the Loko area.
Pros: What happened there?
Wit: After we passed Bakaya to go to the bridge….
Pros: Please proceed…
Judge Doherty: Please continue.
Wit: Something happened by the bridge too.
Pros: What happened?
Wit: I met my eldest sister’s only son being hacked there by a junta.
Pros: What happened to him as a result of this.
Judge Sebutinde: It’s not clear to me whether at this point she’s on her own or still in custody.
Pros: Who were you with?
Wit: With the junta who had captured me.
Pros: How many people were you with?
Wit: He was the only one I was with. The other group was at the back.
Judge Sebutinde: The junta meaning the man who captured her?
Wit: No, the man who released me from under the knife I was threatened with.
Pros: What happened to your eldest sister’s son after he was hacked?
Wit: He died.
Pros: Where did you go?
Wit: We went to Manyayie. I saw two boys coming, but they were people I knew – somebody I was trading with.
Pros; What happened?
Wit: When they saw me, I was trying to let them return, but they did not understand.
Pros: What do you mean by that?
Wit: I was trying to motion for them to return because I was with bad people, but they did not understand.
Pros: What happened then?
Wit: When they came to us, both were captured. I just heard them screaming behind me.
Pros: Did you know why they were screaming?
Wit: I was hearing the sound of the knives, but I didn’t look at them.
Pros: What happened to them?
Wit: Both of them – they amputated their arms. They were taken to the hospital and their hands were hanging like this, but they couldn’t do anything anymore.
Pros: How old were these two men?
Wit: One was 45 years old, the other 32 years.
Pros: Did these two men still have their hands?
Wit: Yes, but they are unable to work with them.
Pros: Was it one or both of their hands.
Wit: Both, for both men.
Pros: Did you know who cut the hands of these two men?
Wit: Yes, a junta.
Pros: How do you know it was the junta?
Wit: They passed through there, through the town?
Pros: Did anything else happen in Manyayie?
Wit: Yes. They burned the houses there. The junta burned them.
Pros: How long did you stay in Manyayie.
Wit: Not long, I can’t tell the time.
Pros: Where did you go?
Wit: We went to Kambia.
Pros: At this time, are you able to tell the court who was in your group?
Wit: I was with the same man, the same junta.
Pros: Anybody else?
Wit: The population was high.
Pros; Who was there?
Wit: The civilians who had been captured, the juntas.
Pros: Amongst the juntas, did you know if there were any senior men?
Def: Objection: seniority by age, rank, what context?
Pros: Were there any commanders?
Wit: There were commanders.
Pros: How did you know that they were commanders?
Wit: After Kambia, I came to know the commander. He passed an order that they should kill all the Mandingos. It was Five-Five and Gullit.
Pros; Did anything happen in Kambia?
Wit: We met a man whose arm had been hacked. His name was Keghu.
Pros: Do you know what had happened to Keghu?
Wit: Yes. I saw a junta come and push Keghu, and Keghu fell down. The man took a machete and hacked him on his chest.
Pros: Did anything happen to Keghu?
Wit: Yes. When I came from the bush and came to the town, they told me Keghu had died.
Pros; Where did you go from Kambia?
Wit: We went to the forest.
Pros: Did anything happen in the forest?
Def: I would be grateful for some timeframe indication.
Pros: How long after you were captured in Karina town…
Judge Doherty: You’re leading now.
Pros: I don’t understand how.
Judge Doherty: Continue. I didn’t allow you to finish your question.
Pros: How long after your capture in Karina did you arrive in Kambia?
Wit: It was the same day.
Pros: What happened in the forest, after Kambia?
Wit: When we got to the forest and they asked us to rest, they (*audio redacted*)
Judge Doherty: A name has been mentioned.
Pros: Can I apply for the name to be redacted?
Judge Doherty: The audio will be redacted.
Pros: Remember not to mention family members. Who asked you to rest in the forest?
Wit: It was the junta who said we should rest there.
Pros; Who were they referring to?
Wit: Five-Five.
Pros: Who were the juntas asking to rest?
Wit: They asked everybody to rest.
Pros; How many people were there?
Wit: The population was high. I don’t know the number.
Pros: You said they came and took your sister. Did anything happen to her?
Wit: Yes. When they took my sister, they wanted to shoot her. A soldier called Jabi came and said that they should not kill her.
Pros: How old was your sister?
Wit: She was around 13.
Pros; What happened to her after that? Please don’t mention names that may identify you.
Wit: The junta man said that they should kill my sister.
Pros: What happened?
Wit: The other junta man came and said they should not kill her. He said my sister was his wife.
Pros; Was your sister his wife?
Wit: He was not her husband. She did not even know him. He only wanted to rape her.
Pros: What happened?
Wit: After the junta man came and said they should not kill her, they released her. Then they came to me. This other man had already come close to me. He asked them why, what happened.
Pros: Who was this man who asked them ‘why’.
Wit: A junta.
Pros: Who was he asking ‘why’ to?
Wit: He was asking his fellow junta.
Pros; What happened?
Wit: His colleague junta said they had come for the Karina Mandingos. He said his commander should not spare any of them.
Pros: Did he give a reason for this?
Wit: They said they were Tejan-Kabbah’s relations.
Pros: Who was Tejan-Kabbah.
Wit: The president of Sierra Leone.
Pros: What happened after the other man said the Karina Mandingos had to be killed.
Wit: The other man said they are not going to kill her. “Move away from me.” The junta boy turned around and went. Then we left that forest.
Pros: Where did you go?
Wit: We went close to Mandahar (ph).
Pros: How long did you stay there?
Wit: From the time we left Karina, all day, we did not get to Mandahar.
Pros: Did you reach Mandahar?
Wit: The time I am talking about, we had not got there.
Pros: Did anything happen on the way to Mandahar?
Wit: I was sitting under a big tree when two juntas came and said the commander called Five-Five wanted to see me. I joined them and went. Five-Five said, “Are you somebody who was born in Karina?” I said yes. He said, say goodbye to the world because we are going to kill you. He said those juntas who captured me who said I was their wife, he said they should kill me.
Pros; What happened?
Wit: I said, “oh, please do not do that to me”. I lied to them and told them that I had done something for them. They asked what I’d done. I told them I had hidden three RUF and four juntas in the house. Five-Five said I should not be killed because this woman did something good for us, that they should let me stay with them. “She has started the jungle.”
Pros: Did he say anything else?
Wit: They said I had already started working.
Judge Sebutinde: Is that the explanation of “starting the jungle”?
Pros: When Five-Five said you’d “started the jungle”, did you know what he meant?
Wit: I did not know at that time, but later I knew the jungle.
Pros: What did those words mean?
Wit: It meant I had started walking with them.
Pros: What happened after this?
Wit: The junta man came and asked what do you want to do to that woman. They said just take her – we’re no longer going to do anything to her.
Pros: You said earlier that you were going to Mandahar. Did you reach it?
Wit: Yes. We stayed there for six days, and left on the seventh day.
Pros: How many of you were staying in Mandahar?
Wit: The population was high.
Pros: Did anything happen there?
Wit: Yes. The Kamajors attacked Mandahar.
Pros: During the six days you were there, did anything happen on those days?
Wit: Yes. At that time I did not used to eat cooked rice. I just chewed husked rice.
Pros: Did anything else happen in Mandahar during those six days?
Wit: Yes. The Kamajors came and attacked Mandahar. They attacked the junta.
Pros: What happened?
Wit: They killed one another. I saw them capture a Kamajor and they brought him. A junta brought him.
Pros; What happened after that?
Wit: They set him on fire and burned him.
Pros; What happened to him as a result?
Wit: He died.
Pros: Did anything else happen in Mandahar during the six days?
Wit: Yes. They killed my younger brother.
Pros: Who did?
Wit: The juntas.
Pros; How old was he?
Wit: 24 years.
Pros; Where were you when they killed him?
Wit: I was in the town.
Pros; What happened to your younger broher?
Wit: They sent him to fetch water. He attempted to escape from the people. They captured him and brought him to town.
Pros; Where were you?
Wit: I was in the town. When they sent the boy to fetch water, I was in the town. The juntas captured him and brought him to the town.
Pros: What happened?
Wit: they said the boy attempted to escape.
Pros: Where were you?
Wit: I was close to them.
Pros: What happened after they said this?
Wit: They said that because he attempted to escape, they are going to kill him. My brother was crying, appealing to them.
Pros: Did you say anything?
Wit: I said please do not kill my brother. They said they are going to add me to him, to take the two of us together to be killed. The boy ran and came and held me on my feet, but then they took him away.
Pros: What happened to him?
Wit: The juntas who took him away all had machetes. They went and hacked him not too far away from us. We all heard him screaming.
Pros: Did you do anything?
Wit: My brother was shouting, saying, “Oh God, my mother, I’m dying today”.
Pros: Did you do anything?
Wit; I had no opportunity.
Pros: Did anything happen after this?
Wit: Yes. The day the incident took place, I cried all day and was in the house for the rest of the day. I didn’t go anywhere.
Pros: Did anything else happen in Mandahar?
Wit: Yes. My sister’s child, 12-years old, was raped.
Judge Doherty: We need to pause a few minutes while the tape is changed.
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Court officer: The new tape is in place.
Pros: You were telling the court that in Mandahar your sister’s child was raped. Who raped her?
Wit: Junta.
Pros: Was the child a male or a female?
Wit: A woman.
Pros: How do you know she was raped?
Wit: The child came crying. She had a short skirt with blood all over it. I realized she was raped.
Pros: At this point, are able to recall how many women were in the group in Mandahar?
Wit: There were many.
Pros: Did anything happen to the women in Mandahar?
Wit: Yes. They used to lie down with the women and girls in the streets and in the nearby bushes and rape them there.
Pros: Who was doing this?
Wit: Juntas.
Pros: Do you recall when this happened within the six days?
Wit: Yes. It was in the morning hours. They did it at all times. Every time you turn around, you see them around.
Pros: How many times did this happen during the six days?
Wit: It was continuous. In the morning, evening, all times.
Pros: Only on one day?
Wit: It was continuous. It was right through the six days we were there. They brought girls from the other villages.
Pros: Were there any commanders in Mandahar?
Wit: Yes.
Pros: Who?
Wit: Five-Five, Gullit, Woyo, Leatherboot, Alabama. The commanders were many. I have forgotten some.
Pros: did anything happen after Mandahar?
Wit: Yes. We went to the other village, Makiteh.
Pros: Where is Makiteh village?
Wit: Makiteh is in the Bombali district.
Pros: Did anything happen in Makiteh?
Wit: Yes. I, my aunt’s foot was rotting away. They had thrown gas on it and they said they would kill her.
Pros: Who threw gas on her?
Wti: At Mandahar, they caught her sitting down and threw cooking gas on her leg.
Pros: Did they do anything else?
Wit: The foot was going bad.
Pros; What caused the foot to go bad?
Wti: They had thrown gas on it and she walked all day.
Pros: Who said they would kill her?
Wit: Gullit, the junta.
Pros: What happened?
Wit: There was a boy who was going to school in Freetown whom my aunt was extending kindness to. He pleaded on her behalf for them not to kill her. He was a junta.
Pros: How old was he?
Wit: About 15 years old.
Pros: How did you know he was a junta?
Wit: He was with the main juntas – he’d been captured.
Pros: What happened?
Wit: they released her.
Pros: What happened after that?
Wit: The next day, the junta killed an old man.
Pros: Why?
Wit: they said he was old now, let him not strain himself. He was hacked continuously with a cutlass.
Pros: Did anything else happen after this?
Wit: Yes. We left that town.
Pros; Where did you go?
Wit: We went to Kortu.
Pros: Did anything happen in Kortu?
Wit: Yes. They captured two brothers and amputated their arms
Pros; Who were these two brothers?
Wit: Civilians.
Pros; Where were you when it happened?
Wit: I was close to the house where they’d been brought from.
Pros: Where were the other civilians?
Wit: I only saw juntas with the three people brought from the house. They cut off the two arms of one of them. They cut off one arm of the other man – they said it’s “short sleeve”. When they say short sleeve, it was cut right here.
Judge Doherty: Witness is indicating below the shoulder on the upper arm.
Pros: Did anything else happen?
Wit: Yes. The other old man close to the house was also hacked.
Pros: How?
Wit: In all ways they felt like doing it.
Pros: Where were you?
Wit: Close to the house.
Pros: Who was hacking him?
Wit: A junta named Fasu Luku.
Pros: Did Fasu Luku say anything to you after this?
Wit: Yes. At the time I was sitting on a gallon of water, and he said I should give him some water. He had blood all over his hands. I threw the water.
Pros; What do you mean?
Wit: I poured the water on the ground and told him I don’t have water.
Pros: Where were the commanders.
Wit: the others were in front.
Pros; Where did you go?
Wit: To Bendembu.
Pros: From there, did you go anywhere else?
Wit: To Kalangba.
Pros: From Kalangba, did you go anywhere else?
Wit: Yes, to Sandar Makulo.
Pros: Did anything happen in Sandar Makulo?
Def: I would be grateful for an indication of the time period.
Pros; How many days after you left Mandahar did you arrive in Sandar Makulo?
Wit: We spent three days in Makiteh, then continued to Makulo, day and night.
Pros; How many days did it take?
Wit; One night, and then we arrived at about 2:00.
Pros: What happened in Sandar Makulo?
Wit: On captive, a boy captured by the commanders, they said the boy should go on food finding.
Pros; Who said this?
Wit: One RUF commander.
Pros: Did you know his name?
Wit: I’ve forgotten his name.
Pros: Did anything happen after he said that?
Wit: Yes, the boy went to find food. He came back with a lump of soap to bathe.
Pros: Did he come back with anything else?
Wit: He brought rice.
Pros: Where did he get it from?
Wit: He took it from the civilians.
Pros: Did anything happen to the boy who took the lump of soap?
Wit: Yes. When the boy went to bathe, I saw a boy trailing him, saying that the commander was calling him.
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Wit: …and they asked him to give his last words. The boy said, “eh, don’t kill me…I’m the only boy my mother has.” Then Killer came and said they should kill the man. They shot him and he died.
Pros: Did you go anywhere from Sandar Makulo?
Wit: We went to Rosos.
Pros: Where was Rosos?
Wit: By ______ Area.
Pros: Do you know the district?
Wit: No.
Pros; How long were you there?
Wit: Seven months.
Pros; How large was the group in Rosos?
Wit: The group we came with, they were not based in one place. They went around deploying in the other villages and brought the civilians from those villages.
Pros: How many civilians were in Rosos?
Wit: It could be about 500 plus.
Pros: What was the age group of the civilians?
Wit: Young boys, some of them in their 20s and 30s. There were some old men. Small children.
Pros: From the 500 civilians, how many were women?
Wit: There were many. I can’t tell the number.
Pros: Did you know any of the women that were there? Don’t mention any names.
Wit: Yes, among the juntas.
Pros: What do you mean by “among the juntas”?
Wit: The junta women and the civilian women – I can remember them.
Pros: Did you know any of the civilian women?
Wit: Yes.
Pros; Who were they – without mentioning their names?
Wit: I was with my eldest sister and younger sister. There were other sisters from Karina. I knew most of them.
Pros: Where was your brother’s wife at this time?
Wit: They had released her and my aunt in Makiteh.
Pros: What was the age of your eldest sister in Rosos?
Wit: Around 45 years.
Pros: And your younger sister?
Wit: 13 years.
Pros: What were the civilians doing in Rosos during the seven months?
Wit: The juntas captured them, so they didn’t give them any chance to go anywhere.
Pros: What were they doing while in Rosos?
Wit: The juntas went and attacked other villages.
Pros: What were the civilians doing?
Wit: When they were preparing to go, they had two companies who went and one to stay with the civilians.
Pros: What were you doing in Rosos?
Wit: I had nothing to do there. They were just punishing me, so that the man would have a way of raping me.
Pros; What do you mean?
Wit: So that he would sleep with me. That is why he captured me.
Pros: Did he do something to you in Rosos?
Wit: Yes. He raped me.
Pros: Did it happen only once?
Wit: He did it continuously.
Pros: Did anything happen to your eldest sister in Rosos?
Wit: She too was raped.
Pros: By whom?
Wit: With the junta.
Pros; Was she raped only once?
Wit: At all times.
Pros: Did anything happen to your 13-year-old sister?
Wit: Yes. They raped her.
Pros: Who?
Wit: Junta.
Pros: Did it happen only once?
Wit: Continuously.
Judge Sebutinde: Did these rapes only occur in Rosos?
Pros: My understanding is that is the case for these specific persons. [to witness] You said you were raped continuously in Rosos. Who were you raped by, without mentioning the name?
Wit: The junta man.
Pros: The same person throuthout?
Wit: Yes.
Pros: Who was your sister raped by?
Wit: Should I call the name?
Pros: No.
Wit: It was a junta.
Def: This line of questioning is objectionable. There’s no foundation that she was present when this happened. I’m not necessarily challenging the evidence, but there needs to be more foundation. There’s no indication of the time periods when this happened.
Pros; I was going to deal with this in more detail anyway. Toward the end of this witness’s testimony, I will be requesting a closed session so that the witness can give the names of the people she’s spoken about.
Judge Doherty: We’ll deal with that in due course.
Pros: You said your 13 year-old sister was raped continuously in Rosos. Who was it, without mentioning the name?
Wit: The junta.
Pros; Was it the same person who raped her continuously?
Wit: Yes.
Pros: How do you know what happened to your sisters?
Wit: My youngest sister came to me crying. She said what happened. She was too young. It was the same with my oldest sister.
Pros: How is it that you are able to say they were being raped continuously?
Wit: I used to go there because the junta man I was with gave me a chance to go there.
Pros: Where did you go to get these stories?
Wit: When my sister sent a small girl to me to tell me that she was sick, the junta man let me go with her to search for my sister. The junta man would allow two boys to go with me with guns to see if I would escape.
Pros: How old were those boys with the guns?
Wit: 20 years and 17.
Pros: When you went to see your sisters, what did they say to you?
Wit: My sister would loosen her wrapper and show me her condition.
Pros: Who were your sisters living with in Rosos?
Wit: They were with the junta.
Pros: While they were living with the junta, did they have to do anything?
Wit: Yes. They cooked. They used to launder for them. In the night they raped all of them. [crying]
Pros: Who were you living with?
Wit: I was not feeling fine because it was not for me to go to those places.
Pros: Who were you living with in Rosos?
Wit: I was with the junta.
Pros: Did you have to do anything?
Wit: I cooked for him and he used to rape me.
Pros: Do you know what the other civilians were doing in Rosos during those months?
Wit: The women who were up to the age of raping, they used to rape them. The boys, they took them to steal property.
Pros: Who raped?
Wit: The juntas. Wherever they felt like doing it, they would just do it.
Pros: What do you mean, the boys were taken to steal property?
Wit: They were taken to steal other people’s property from the other villages.
Pros: Where did you go after Rosos?
Wit: We went to Tufayim.
Pros: Did you know it by any other name?
Wit: Yes. Eddie Town.
Pros: How do you know it was called Eddie Town?
Wit: It was the commander who discovered the place – the town was named after him.
Pros: Who moved with you?
Wit: It was the junta boy.
Pros: What happened to the other civilians and junta that were in Rosos with you?
Wit: A civilian woman called Mommie – she refused a junta boy and then the boy drove her away.
Pros: Where did this happen?
Wit: In Rosos.
Pros: What did your answer mean. Could you be clearer?
Wit: Mommy went and stayed all on her own. Any junta man would go to rape her.
Pros: What did you mean “when he drove Mommie”.
Wit: He sent her out of the house because he said she had been refusing him.
Pros; Who sent her away?
Wit: A junta.
Pros: What did you mean there were three who went to her?
Wit: Three juntas went to rape her. Mommie refused. They shot her in her waist.
Pros: How did you know about this?
Wit: She passed my door crying. Blood was coming down her leg. I called her because she was my Mandingo sister. I did not feel good because I knew a similar thing would happen to me. That night, I refused rape. But I saw his gun, so I accepted for him not to kill me.
Pros: This happened in Rosos?
Wit: Yes.
Pros: You went to Tufayim, Eddie Town?
Wit: Yes.
Pros: Do you recall if anything happened to the women in Eddie Town?
Wit: Yes. Any woman who refused to be raped, they would place her in a box and lock her up.
Pros: Who did this?
Wit: Junta.
Pros; What kind of box?
Wit: A wooden box. They would close it and seal it.
Pros: Did you ever see this happen?
Wit: Yes, I saw it three times.
Pros: Do you recall for how long the women were locked in the boxes?
Wit: Yes. Some will remain in there all day, and then taken out in the evening. Some were taken out at 2:00.
Pros: What happened to the women as a result?
Wit: When they take the person out, normally they will go sick.
Pros: Do you know what kind of sickness?
Wit: Yes. They were very weak. When they try to get up they will fall down.
Pros: Why did this happen to them?
Wit: Because of the heat in the box.
Pros: Do you recall anything happening while you were in Eddie Town?
Wit: Yes. We were at Eddie Town when two junta boys came and said Superman was sending reinforcements.
Pros: Who were the junta boys?
Wit: They came with commanders.
Pros: Who were the commanders at Eddie Town?
Wit: Col. Eddie, Five-Five, Gullit, Woyoh, FAT, Leatherboot. I will call the names according to the groups that came.
Pros: Which groups were there?
Wit: Tito’s group came, they were juntas. Alabama – junta. RUF Mohamed also came – that was the third group for Superman.
Pros: What do you mean, groups that came.
Wit: The fighters who came to enter Freetown.
Pros: You said the junta boys said Superman was sending reinforcements. How did they know?
Wit: They had a signal set and communicated with commanders.
Pros: Did they tell you what was the information they received?
Wit: Yes. There were persons around shouting. They were all happy, they said Superman sent reinforcements with good ammunition.
Pros: Did you know who Superman was?
Wit: Yes, RUF.
Pros: Did those two boys say anything else?
Wit: They said it was the RUF who had a way to enter and they had brought a good amount of ammunition. So they were all happy.
Pros: What happened after the boys said this?
Wit: Soldiers were sent to go receive the RUF. In the morning they assembled them. My house was near the commander’s house and I saw it happen. The group went and received the RUF and came back.
Pros: Can you name any persons in this group that went to receive the RUF?
Def: I don’t know that the question should reference a group sent, when the witness said it was companies A and B.
Judge Doherty: I’ll allow the question as put.
Pros: Can you name any persons in this group that went to receive the RUF?
Wit: Jabbi, Olangba (ph), Ogadiyai, Ibrahim, Acehbeh (ph). It was a large group. I can’t recall more names.
Pros: What happened after the group left?
Wit: The group went and collected them. They brought them and there was happiness in the whole town. All the juntas were happy. They said now they had enough ammunition to go to Freetown.
Pros: Did you see the group that came?
Wit: Yes.
Pros: How many were they?
Wit: 100 and more. They all had head-bands.
Pros: What color?
Wit: Red.
1:30 (2:00 with the delay in video and audio): Court is now adjourning for lunch. Proceedings will resume at 2:30 (3:00 with the video/audio delay).