MONROVIA, LIBERIA-A suspect ted warlord from Sierra Leone has appeared in an appeals court in Finland, accused of atrocities in Liberia’s Civil War.

A retrial was ordered after Gibril Massaquoi was acquitted by a lower court last year.

The trial will move to Liberia next month and then to Sierra Leone.

Mr. Massaquoi was arrested in Finland in 2020, accused of murder, rape and other war crimes committed in Liberia.

He was a senior commander in the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), a Sierra Leonean rebel group that also fought in Liberia.

Hundreds of thousands of people were killed and mutilated in the Sierra Leonean and Liberian civil wars of the 1990s and early 2000s.