Author: Evelyn Kpadeh Seagbeh

PARIS, France – The judge in former Liberian warlord, Kunti Kamara’s appeal of his 2022 conviction for war crimes, dealt a blow to Kamara’s case on Monday by striking out his two challenges to the charges. The former commander with the Ulimo rebel group had introduced two new arguments in this appeal claiming that he was 15 at the time the crimes took place and therefore was too young for the case to be heard in an adult court. He also claimed that the crimes took place before France’s 10-year statute of limitation and so the charges against him came…

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PARIS, France – Massa Washington took many pauses. Her voice trembled with sorrow. When she could not control it, the former commissioner with Liberia’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, sobbed quietly, a testament to the trauma she still carries as a victim of the war and from hearing the testimonies of 22,000 victims of Liberia’s civil wars.

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