PARIS, France, March 13 -- Witnesses from Foya in Lofa County gave the court hearing former rebel leader Kunti Kamara's appeal of his 2022 war crimes conviction a deeper sense of the terror and chaos that his group, Ulimo, rained down on the town during the rebel group's occupation in 1993. On Tuesday the court heard that after Ulimo had destroyed the county's referral hospital, raped and murdered dozens of citizens including chopping open a schoolteacher's chest with an axe and eating his heart, dozens of men were forced to carry parts of the town's power station across the border to Guinea. There Ulimo sold parts for cash and food.

By Evelyn Kpadeh Seagbeh and Prue Clarke with New Narratives

Four witnesses, men who were in Foya at the...