Amen. I thank you too.

Thank God.

Those of us who sustained these injuries, those of us who were amputated, we are please appealing to you to sympathise with us. And, you know, it is your arms and your legs that enable you to fend food, but wherever we are, please, we want to ask you kindly ...

Well, I thank you because this shows that we will not do - commit crimes against one another any more. Can I continue?

Well, first and foremost I want to thank you for bringing this Court into existence.

I want to say something to you.

Yes, they gave me that one to leave Kono and come to Freetown. That was my transport fares and my feeding.

Well at that time they gave it to me they said it was for transportation fares, because where I was there were motorbikes there and so they told me to hire a motorbike and to buy food.

Yes, they gave me that sum.

Well because I did not go to school I do not know exactly what is written there, but if you name the money and ask me the question if it is true I will say, "Yes, it is true that I received such money".

Well, they gave me money. I can remember 15,000. God likes the truth, but they did not give me to say they were paying me. I did not know - check the date, but I received that money at that time.

Well, the handing out of these monies is true, but to say they were paying me per month, they did not tell me that and that's not the truth that they were paying me every month, no. Because I was not working. Why should they pay me? They were ...

No.

Yeah. At the time that they were giving me this money they used to tell me that this money is transportation fare to Freetown. When you're coming on the way, what you will eat on the way. They did not say that is your salary. No, that was not ...

Well, it's only now that I have understood that the Prosecution, this part of this court, they did not pay me with money. I can say it here, the truth. Although it's quite a long time now, I did not calculate the money that I was given, but ...

I did not know - when they chopped off my hand, from that time up to this time and they were paying me for work? No, I was not receiving such money. Even when we were in the camp only sympathisers, humanitarian workers went there and they were giving us handouts ...

What company?

I was not working for salary. Even when I was in the camp at WFP - even at WFP they were giving us bulgur wheat. I was not working for salary.

I can't tell to say these are the number of months. When I went to Guinea and came back it was not long. It was not up to a month. I did not check the time. It was not long when my hand was cut off.

When I went to Guinea?

I did not - I don't know if you understood my explanation. Before they cut off my hand, when I went to Guinea my hand had not been cut off. On the day that I was captured in Tombodu, and they beat us up and put us in a cell ...

No, we did not discuss for long with Komba at the time.

No, he said he did not name someone. In fact we did not discuss for a long time.

Really, he did not name someone to say, "This was the person who cut off my hand". What he told me when I asked him about the cutting of his hand, he said, "These people who had come here, the RUF, they were the people who've caused me this ...

No, Komba did not tell me that.

I did not say it was Staff Alhaji who cut off my hand. I said Staff Alhaji sent people to beat me up, but he did not cut off my hand.

Well, he did not name someone to say, "This was the person who cut off my hand", because we did not discuss for a long time.

Well, he too told me the same thing; that the AFRC and the RUF cut off his hand, because they were the people who were in that area, and they went there on that day.

Yes.

Well, I heard he was here, but we are not in the same house with him.

Well, they first came before us.

Yes.

I said I did not count these people. They were many. Because when they took you they used to come. They were many there. That was where they came from to go on patrols. They were many there, because in that area they were the only ones there.

I did not count them, because the area where they were, they were many there. There were woman, there were men. That was where they were based, in that area where we went.

Well, from what they told us about their group, I knew that they were RUF, they were rebels, because they were dressed in that mixed dressing. For the soldiers, they dressed in their uniform.

When their boss passed that command, that one that cut off my hand he was wearing a civilian shirt and the trousers that he was wearing was a military one; that one who cut off my hand.

Yes. They wouldn't give their real name, but their official positions they did.

No, because --

Well in relation to the cutting of my hand, it was not Staff Alhaji who cut off my hand. My hand was not cut off in Tombodu. It was cut off in Yardu.

I don't understand.

Well, at the time that they took me to that man I did not know him. God likes the truth. I did not know him, but they said he was their boss.

Well, initially - because when I'm explaining what I see is what I talk about. When I went there initially I did not know so many people. It was only Alhaji that I knew, because that man told me that he was their boss. It was later that they told ...

Which boss do you mean?

Yes.

Yes, it was at that time that we met there with Alhaji where he was.

Yes, because they said then it was safe there. That was why we said we were returning home.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes. Yes, they were together. They said he was their boss.

Yes.