In December 2009, the TRC issued its final report, which highlighted problems in the Liberian justice system and called for the establishment of a hybrid international-national tribunal with Liberian and foreign judges to try past crimes. While supportive of the general approach, Human Rights Watch has recommended that several elements of the proposal should be revised to ensure prosecutions of past crimes in accordance with international standards. Weah should take several specific steps to begin pursuing accountability for past atrocities, Human Rights Watch said. “The countless victims of the unspeakable crimes committed in Liberia deserve justice for what they have suffered,” Keppler said. “The era of rampant impunity for international crimes should at last close.”Click to read the full text of the letter from the HRW(Visited 77 times, 1 visits today)Commentscomments

Source: GNN Liberia February 12, 2018 07:28 UTC