Swiss court convicts Liberian rebel of rape, killings and cannibalism

Alieu Kosiah gets maximum 20-year sentence in Switzerland's first war crimes trial in a civilian court

A Liberian rebel commander has been sentenced in Switzerland to 20 years in jail for rape, killings and an act of cannibalism in one of the first convictions over the west African country's civil war.

The case was also Switzerland's first war crimes trial in a civilian court. It involved the 46-year-old Alieu Kosiah, who went by the nom de guerre bluff boy" in the rebel faction Ulimo that fought former President Charles Taylor's army in the 1990s.