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Case No. SCSL-2003-01-T the PROSECUTOR of the SPECIAL COURT V. CHARLES GHANKAY TAYLOR TUESDAY, 8 APRIL 2008 9.30 A.M. TRIAL TRIA Case No. SCSL-2003-01-T THE PROSECUTOR OF THE SPECIAL COURT V. CHARLES GHANKAY TAYLOR TUESDAY, 8 APRIL 2008 9.30 A.M. TRIAL TRIAL CHAMBER II Before the Judges: Justice Teresa Doherty, Presiding Justice Richard Lussick Justice Julia Sebutinde Justice Al Hadji Malick Sow, Alternate For Chambers: Mr William Romans Ms Carolyn Buff For the Registry: Ms Rachel Irura For the Prosecution: Ms Brenda J Hollis Mr Mohamed A Bangura Mr Alain Werner Ms Maja Dimitrova For the accused Charles Ghankay Mr Terry Munyard Taylor: Mr Morris Anyah CHARLES TAYLOR Page 6820 08 APRIL 2008 OPEN SESSION 1 Tuesday, 8 April 2008 2 [Open session] 3 [The accused present] 4 [Upon commencing at 9.30 a.m.]. 09:30:57 5 PRESIDING JUDGE: Good morning. I notice some change of 6 appearances. Mr Bangura? 7 MR BANGURA: Good morning your Honours. Your Honours, for 8 the Prosecution this morning, Brenda J Hollis, Mohamed A Bangura, 9 that's myself, Alain Werner and Maja Dimitrova. Thank you. 09:31:18 10 PRESIDING JUDGE: Thank you, Mr Bangura. Good morning 11 Mr Anyah. 12 MR ANYAH: Good morning Madam President, your Honours. For 13 the Defence we have Mr Terry Munyard, myself Morris Anyah and we 14 are joined today again together by Mr Ibrahim Warne. 09:31:34 15 PRESIDING JUDGE: Thank you, Mr Anyah. If there are no 16 other matters - Mr Bangura, you are on your feet. 17 MR BANGURA: Thank you, your Honour. Good morning 18 Mr Witness. 19 PRESIDING JUDGE: I haven't reminded the witness of his 09:31:46 20 oath. I was just checking if there were no preliminary issues. 21 No. Mr Witness, you recall that yesterday you swore to tell the 22 truth. That oath is still binding on you. You must answer 23 questions truthfully. 24 THE WITNESS: Yes, sir. 09:32:00 25 WITNESS: TF1-516 [On former oath] 26 PRESIDING JUDGE: Very good. Please proceed, Mr Bangura. 27 MR BANGURA: Thank you. 28 EXAMINATION-IN-CHIEF BY MR BANGURA: [Continued] 29 Q. Good morning again, Mr Witness. SCSL - TRIAL CHAMBER II CHARLES TAYLOR Page 6821 08 APRIL 2008 OPEN SESSION 1 A. Good morning, sir. 2 Q. We shall continue with your evidence this morning. 3 Yesterday before we broke off you were telling the Court about 4 the training - one of the training bases where you were taken to. 09:32:27 5 In fact you had given a description of that training base which 6 is the secondary school. Do you recall? 7 A. Yes, sir. 8 Q. What's the name of that secondary school again? 9 A. Ahmadiyya secondary school, Kailahun. 09:32:45 10 Q. How long were you at the Ahmadiyya secondary school? 11 A. About three months. 12 Q. Now you have also told the Court that during the period you 13 were there one of the exercises to which you were put was to run 14 every morning for quite a distance, is that correct? 09:33:11 15 A. Yes, sir. 16 Q. Do you recall any other form of treatment to which you were 17 subjected? 18 A. Every morning we were asked to the gather and that was 19 referred to as a muster parade and at muster parade we were given 09:33:27 20 necessary information, commands as how to move about doing 21 things. 22 Q. Now what sort of people were brought to this base, 23 including yourself? 24 A. I was a student and on the training base I got in touch 09:33:47 25 with so many other colleagues who were all students. 26 Q. Were they before they were brought there part of any of 27 these forces that were fighting? 28 A. I did not understand the question, please. 29 Q. Were they part of any of the factions that were fighting at SCSL - TRIAL CHAMBER II CHARLES TAYLOR Page 6822 08 APRIL 2008 OPEN SESSION 1 that time before they brought them to the base? 2 A. No, sir. We were all civilians. 3 Q. Thank you. Now were you free to leave when you were 4 brought to this base? 09:34:21 5 A. No. We only moved by the command of the training 6 instructors. Nobody was authorised to move, otherwise you would 7 be killed. 8 Q. Did you see this happen at all during your stay on the 9 base? 09:34:41 10 A. Yes, it happened at the time we were transferred to the 11 national secondary school campus training base. It happened as a 12 result of our colleagues, a recruit who took to escaping from the 13 training base, and at one time the instructor said, "We have 14 learnt that a good number of you people are escaping and you have 09:35:06 15 been initiated into our society, so if any one of you is caught 16 we will deal with you accordingly." 17 And a colleague called Jusu, I can still remember, was 18 caught on the bypass trying to escape and he was arrested and 19 taken to the field and one of the instructors called Rambo told 09:35:29 20 us in a muster parade that, "See what we are going to do to your 21 colleague because we made this announcement but it appears you do 22 not want to heed to it." He was shot in the leg and lay down, 23 his head was cut off. He said, "This will serve to you as an 24 incentive not to escape." 09:35:48 25 Q. Thank you, Mr Witness. Your Honours, I see on the screen 26 the name which the witness mentioned is spelt differently. The 27 name that came up that the witness mentioned is Jusu and that 28 name is J-U-S-U. 29 JUDGE SEBUTINDE: Also, Mr Bangura, he named a something SCSL - TRIAL CHAMBER II CHARLES TAYLOR Page 6823 08 APRIL 2008 OPEN SESSION 1 society. I didn't get it and nor did the transcriber. "You have 2 initiated a" something "society" in line 21. 3 MR BANGURA: Yes, I am trying to get that. 4 THE WITNESS: That we have been initiated on their society 09:36:28 5 and we should not move without their consent. 6 MR BANGURA: Okay, I hope that makes sense. Thank you, 7 Mr Witness. 8 PRESIDING JUDGE: Just to make sure we understand, is the 9 witness saying these recruits were initiated into their society 09:36:50 10 and therefore should not escape? 11 THE WITNESS: Fine, that is it. 12 PRESIDING JUDGE: Thank you, Mr Witness. 13 MR BANGURA: 14 Q. Mr Witness, you mentioned that you moved over to the 09:37:01 15 national secondary school. Where was the national secondary 16 school? 17 A. National secondary school is situated in between a village 18 called Nyahun and Kailahun, the township of Kailahun. 19 Q. Are you able to spell the name of that village Nyahun? 09:37:21 20 A. It's N-Y-A-H-U-N. 21 Q. Now apart from the national secondary school was there any 22 other base in Kailahun, training base? 23 A. Yes, sir. Another training base was situated at the 24 Methodist secondary school, Kailahun campus. 09:37:47 25 Q. Now yesterday you said that there were up to 5,000 people 26 being trained at the national secondary school. Did that include 27 the number also at the Methodist secondary school? 28 A. National secondary school campus, the number was 29 overwhelming so they had to divide the group into two, one taken SCSL - TRIAL CHAMBER II CHARLES TAYLOR Page 6824 08 APRIL 2008 OPEN SESSION 1 to the Methodist secondary school Kailahun and the other reminded 2 in the national secondary school Kailahun. 3 Q. So when you say 5,000 was that inclusive of the two 4 training bases? 09:38:28 5 A. Yes, sir. 6 Q. Now were you during the course of your training put into 7 any group? 8 A. Yes, sir. On the training base we had different groups. 9 One, we had the SBU, that is ranging from one to 20 years. That 09:38:49 10 is boys. And we had the adult group. We had SGU, girls ranging 11 from one to 20 years. And we had WAC's, that is women army 12 commando soldiers. 13 Q. And who were in this WAC's group? 14 A. Those were women above 20 years, because before your name 09:39:18 15 is written you will first be asked to state your date of birth. 16 Based upon that you will be put into these groups. 17 Q. So which of these groups did you fall into? 18 A. I fell in the SBU, the Small Boys Unit. 19 MR ANYAH: Madam President, I am just - perhaps counsel 09:39:43 20 could assist us with a little foundation. I am not sure if the 21 witness is still at national secondary or at Methodist at this 22 point and whether in respect of these groups he is referring to 23 groups that pertain to national secondary or Methodist. I am not 24 sure which base we are talking about at this point. 09:40:01 25 PRESIDING JUDGE: I understood it to be just a general 26 background information but, Mr Bangura, you have heard Mr Anyah.
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