About fifteen of them submitted a text “ready for use” on Thursday, June 24, which could serve as a model for a team. This is a lobbying operation because 18 years after the end of the last civil war, a number of the most infamous warlords and suspected criminals have not yet been brought to justice.
The text of the law was copied 176 times for distribution to each Member of Parliament. The aim is to put pressure on the authorities and finally arrive to set up a court and assess the crimes committed since the years 1980. Especially during the Civil War of 1989 and 2003.
Massacres, torture, rape, recruitment of child soldiers, conflicts have left 250,000 dead and brought the country, one of the poorest on the planet, to its knees. Today, a number of directly involved personalities occupy prominent positions in politics and economics.
In 2009, a special commission had already advised on the establishment of a special court, but the various executives since then have never done so. followed these recommendations. Two years ago, George Weah, the current president of Liberia, had also been quite reluctant to ask the Senate to meet on this subject. The Senate has only just answered him and he warns the head of state against the risk of “reopening old wounds”.
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