A Finnish court of appeal began on Tuesday hearing an international war crime case in which a Sierra Leonean man is charged with murders, rapes and other atrocities during the Liberian civil war between 1999 and 2003, the court said.
Prosecutors believe the 53-year-old suspect Gibril Massaquoi - who denies any wrongdoing - murdered, raped and mutilated civilians while he was in a high position in Revolutionary United Front.
The RUF was an insurgent group that fought in Sierra Leone but also in Liberia for its ex-president Charles Taylor.
