Views of Liberia's TRC
Posted by Helena Cobban at 09:38 AM |
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Charles Taylor Disappears
Former Liberian president Charles Taylor has disappeared from his villa in Nigeria where he has lived since going into exile in an internationally-brokered peace deal in 2003 that brought Liberia's civil war to an end. The disappearance comes on the...
Posted by Christopher J. Le Mon at 03:30 PM |
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Johnson-Sirleaf Formally Requests Charles Taylor's Transfer to the Special Court for Sierra Leone
According to news reports (BBC, VOA, Reuters) Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has formally requested that Nigeria extradite former Liberian President Charles Taylor to the Special Court for Sierra Leone, a hybrid tribunal set up through an agreement between the United...
Posted by Christopher J. Le Mon at 08:45 AM |
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Hard decisions
Two weeks ago, Liberia held the first round of a general election with which it hopes to make good its transition from a decade of bloody civil war. One of the issues running through the election campaign has been whether...
Posted by Jonathan Edelstein at 05:26 PM |
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