George Boley Arrested In The US On Immigration Charges Some news out of New York. George Boley, a warlord I first met when covering the Liberian civil war in the mid-90s, and who later moved to New York, was arrested January 15th by U.S. Immigration and Customs and is now sitting in a jail cell in upstate Batavia. So far,

Liberian Diaspora Group Expresses Support for TRC Report

A Liberian Diaspora group is calling for the full implementation of the final report and recommendations of Liberia’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC).

Safe haven for an alleged killer

A Liberian man accused of horrific war crimes is alive and well in Canada

A former commander in a rebel Liberian army who has been accused by multiple witnesses and former associates of war crimes and crimes against humanity is living freely in Toronto. Bill Horace was a general in the National Patriotic Front of Liberia, a militia that gathered in neighbouring Ivory Coast and invaded Liberia in 1989, plunging the country into more than a decade of intermittent war. That conflict killed tens of thousands and featured the widespread use of child soldiers and mass atrocities against civilians—including sexual slavery, cannibalism, and indiscriminate slaughter. Charles Taylor, who led that army and was eventually elected president before being forced from office in 2003, is now on trial in The Hague on war crimes charges.

Liberia weighing trials for war crimes - minister

MONROVIA, April 25 (Reuters) - Liberia is considering trying perpetrators of the worst crimes committed during its 1989-2003 civil war, in which child soldiers were recruited, women raped and thousands killed, the justice minister said. Justice Minister Christiana Tah told Reuters a committee had been set up to review a report by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) late last year detailing evidence of atrocities and that it would advise on whether prosecutions should go ahead. Africa's oldest independent republic is still recovering from the war that left it in ruins. But unlike neighbouring Sierra Leone, which swiftly set up an international tribunal to try war criminals in its closely intertwined conflict, Liberia chose to rebuild first. The twin conflicts killed about a quarter of a million people.

Applause Over Gus New Trial

The environmental rights group, Global Witness, has applauded the Dutch Supreme Court's decision ordering a new trial for Mr. Gus Kouwenhoven, one of former President Charles Taylor's key business and wartime allies. The court overturned the 2008 ruling by the Court of Appeal which cleared businessman Mr. Kouwenhoven of charges of involvement in illegal arms deals and war crimes during the civil war here between 2000 and 2003. The Court of Appeal will now have to re-examine the case and bring a new judgment. Global Witness, which first documented the involvement of Kouwenhoven in illegal logging and arms trafficking in its 2001 report,

Opponents Of The TRC Report Are Ineligible For The Palava Hut Healing Process

Grand Gedeh County Senator Isaac Nyenabo: Tried To Repeal The TRC Law

Those who opposed from the very start the implementation of the recommendations contained in the final report of the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission, or TRC, should not be eligible for the palava hut healing process.

Pearl Brown Bull As Head Of Committee Of ExpertsAn Unacceptable Conflict

Liberia Human Rights Campaign, or LHRC, a US-based Liberian human right movement is describing the recent appointment by the Chief Justice of Liberia, Johnny Lewis of Pearl Brown Bull to head a so called committee of experts to lead a vetting process for the selection of members of the Liberian Human Rights Commission as an unacceptable act that threatens the full implementation of the TRC report.

Liberian President Sirleaf to Implement TRC Report or Resign, Says LHRC

Patrick Nimely Sie-Tuon of the U.S.-based Liberia Human Rights Campaign says the group has nothing personal against President Sirleaf only to end impunity in Liberia.