Tales of atrocities dominate accounts of Liberia's years of civil war but not a single person has been tried for war crimes in the country's courts. This is despite the estimated 250,000 dead - amounting to around 8% of the population at the time - and survivors willing to testify about the conflicts from 1989 to 1997 and 1999 to 2003. On Tuesday, in an unprecedented move, a war crimes case is due to be heard in the capital, Monrovia. But this will be a Finnish court holding a special session, not part of the Liberian judicial process. Gibril Massaquoi was a resident of Finland when he was arrested in 2020 and is accused of killing civilians, rape and recruiting child soldiers. He denies the charges. The case, while welcomed by campaigners, raises the question of why the Liberian courts have not taken any action. Arthur Bondo is one of those who wants to see people on trial in his country. He was recruited as a child soldier - though not by Mr Massaquoi - in 1990, when he was 15. He has a clear memory of the day when the National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL) rebels came to his father's farm in north-central Bong county. "They shot the pigs we were rearing, ordered us to carry the pigs with them and forced us to join them," he says. "I experienced a lot of bad things." He does not go into any more detail. He is clear however that he wants a war crimes court to be established "to stop impunity".The 46-year-old bears the physical and emotional scars of the conflict and wants to make sure that others do not have to go through the same thing. He lost an arm during that time and is now head of a disabled persons association in Bong county. "The child soldiers who were used are living in poverty and trauma. If a war crimes court comes to Liberia and people are prosecuted no-one would use child soldiers again."