An estimated 300,000 people died and thousands more displaced during Liberia’s 14 years of civil war, which ended in 2003. “The U.S. in its bid to prove its case against Mr. Jabateh is using war crimes victims in Liberia. Mr. Taylor’s former wife, Agnes Reeves Taylor was indicted in the U.K. in June this year for alleged torture and conspiracy to torture during the civil war. Journalists, prosecutors and Bility himself have faced threats and intimidation for the Jabateh trial, particularly from members of the Mandingo tribe from which Jabateh and Bility come. It doesn’t necessarily have to be war crimes accountability but accountability in many other areas.

Source: Front Page Africa October 17, 2017 01:41 UTC