Man Ate Boiled Cassava With Cooked Human Flesh, Witness Explains Ordeal

Monrovia- A witness told commissioners of Liberia’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission that fighters of the National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL) forced her uncle to eat boil cassava with cooked human flesh.

Yassah Koweh, 30, said the fighters who were based in the town of Gbondoi, Grand Cape Mount County arrested her uncle (name not mentioned) and ordered him to cook and eat the flesh of a man who was summarily executed.

Under gunpoint, Yassah explained, the fighters watched her uncle as he cooked the cassava and human flesh. She said he was later forced to eat the meal.

She said the commander, only named Raconi and his men used to eat human heart during their occupation of the area. The witness explained that the fighters extracted the hearts of their victims after they were executed and cooked them for meal.

She said on several occasions, the commander and his men offered her and her mother cook human hearts for meal.

“Because food business was hard and they thought we were hungry, Raconi and his boys used to sent my mother some of the cook human heart for us to eat,” she said.

Yassah said when the fighter delivering the meal left their presence, they usually concealed the food and dumped it.

She said because of the cannibalism her uncle was forced to engage in, he now lives in a village in Grand Cape Mount County where he is critically ill now having protruded stomach.

The TRC is an independent body set up to investigate the root causes of the Liberian crisis, document human rights violations, review the history of Liberia, and put all human rights abuses that occurred during the period from 1979 to 2003 on record. The TRC mandate is to also identify victims and perpetrators and make recommendations on amnesty, prosecution and reparation.

The hearings in Robertsport, Grand Cape Mount County which marked the end of the commission’s Public Hearings in the 15 political sub-divisions of Liberia was held under the theme: “Confronting Our Difficult Past, For A Better Future.”

OMG...I hate reading these thing...it can just make me God help them!!

How is your heart GQ? One day it wil be sprinkled with peppeh and salt....

gadyu wrote:

How is your heart GQ? One day it wil be sprinkled with peppeh and salt....

Gadyu,

That is so sad man! please don't make joke of it. Can you Imagine that? Like in primitive times. Oh God, what became of us?

My man, those people will pay for their sins. You probably just hearing this so it sounds new. We lived through that and if you think about all that, you may go crazy.

That is my way of getting it out of my system ya Singbe. Hey, Sam Ngaima still running for senator in the next senatorial elections?

Oh that is so sick and I love Cassava leaves too. Now I won't look at it the same.

heru1976 wrote:

Oh that is so sick and I love Cassava leaves too. Now I won't look at it the same.

You took the words out of my mouth.