A Culture of Impunity Reigns, Former TRC Commissioner Tells Paris War... FPAfrica: Liberia
In emotional testimony Stewart brought the first real sense of the tremendous suffering Liberians endured during the 14 years of war and the five years of turmoil that proceeded it. He detailed many of the massacres, starvation and trauma he and fellow commissioners heard during the three years that they heard 22,000 testimonies across the country. As a journalist during the war Stewart had experienced much of it firsthand.
"Just imagine," Stewart challenged jurors."Senator Prince Johnson - the single most notorious person, with highest number of violations - is in parliament. George Boley, the second highest in terms of atrocities, is in parliament. We were threatened; some commissioners fled the country for their lives. I received so many death threats. All this because they do not want accountability.
On cross examination by Kamara's defense lawyer Stewart said he did not know whether Kamara was one of 5,000 perpetrators named in the report or was among others named in the TRC archive of testimonies including some that did not make it to the report. Robert covered many of the other conflicts roiling the world at the time - the Kuwait war, the fall of the Soviet Union - but in the dozens of trips he took to Liberia nothing seemed to change, he said. The other conflicts were moving fast but this one was not.
People were starving and desperate, including the combatants. Though Taylor's National Patriotic Front for Liberia was not based on any ethnicity, NPFL recruits quickly turned on ethnic Krahn of then-President Samuel Doe and the long-maligned Mandingo. When the Mandingo formed the United Liberation Movement for Democracy in Liberia in 1992, the group Kunti Kamara joined, all leaders began using ethnicity as a recruitment tool.
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