By Lewis S. Teh
The Governance Fee, or GC, in collaboration with the Ducor Institute for Social Justice and Financial Analysis, has convened a one-day coverage dialogue that focuses on the importance of the Liberian civil battle, which claimed roughly 250,000 harmless lives.
Remarking at the beginning of the dialogue, Thursday, July 10, 2025, at a neighborhood lodge in Sinkor, GC, Appearing Chairperson Professor Alaric Tokpa welcomed attendees on the dialogue, together with improvement companions, authorities officers from the chief, judiciary, and the legislature, civil society organizations, youths, and scholar teams.
” We convene this dialogue in continuation of the nationwide therapeutic reconciliation and unity endeavors beneath the management of President Boakai, and to say on this open method that we’re dedicated to supporting the Struggle and Financial Crimes Courtroom course of as vital a part of constructing peace, sustaining stability, selling social financial improvement and nourishing good governance.”
He stated the Struggle and Financial Crimes Courtroom is a nationwide demand that have to be glad on grounds that the taking away of human lives, the degradation of fellow human beings, the irresponsible destruction of private and non-private properties, disregard for rule of regulation, and the violation of worldwide humanitarian regulation are unacceptable crimes that shouldn’t be ignored.
” The institution of the Struggle and Financial Crimes Courtroom in Liberia is essential for ending impunity, deterring future perpetrators of atrocities, and offering justice and redress to victims of warfare crimes,” he stated.
He, nevertheless, added that the institution of a non-bailable anti-corruption court docket in Liberia is pressing, whereas stating that the institution of a warfare and financial crimes court docket in Liberia will likely be greater than a judicial enterprise, as it’s a ethical and historic obligation.
” Girls and Gents, the court docket will symbolize Liberia’s willpower to confront its previous and chart a brand new path in direction of justice, accountability, nationwide therapeutic, and unity.”
On the identical time, the performing GC Chairperson used the event to increase gratitude to Liberia’s improvement companions, together with ECOWAS, the UN, the AU, and the EU, who’ve made an everlasting dedication to sustaining Liberia’s quest for justice.
For his half, Dr. Aaron Weah, Government Director of the Ducor Institute for Social Justice, offered a research-driven evaluation on the importance of the warfare and financial crimes court docket. He stated the WECC is meant to topic Liberia’s latest historical past to scrutiny, produce an neutral document that can allow new historical past books to be written.
Underneath social making
Dr. Weah stated violent recollections of the social civil warfare have been repackaged in memoir movies and casually transmitted these violent recollections with out caring concerning the hazard they pose to society.
He made particular reference to the Motion for Democracy and Reconstruction, or MDR, previously led by the late Nimba County Senator Prince Y. Johnson, including that the occasion is perceived as one which socialized primarily across the Gio and Mano in the course of the 1980 civil warfare.
He additional references the All-Liberian Coalition Celebration which he says it’s perceived to be ethnic Mandingos response to the civil and political rights.
” Because of the politics of silence, the Liberian state has remained detached to those social and political maneuvers.”
The one-day coverage dialogue additionally included a panel dialogue, which featured a few of Liberia’s high authorized minds sharing their experience on the importance of warfare and financial crimes courts.
The panel discussant included former Chief Justice Frances Morris Allison, veteran human rights lawyer Cllr. Tiawon Gongloe, Cllr. Boakai Kanneh, and Cllr. Jallah Barbu.
Their views guided dialogue on the authorized basis of the court docket, the position of archives and proof assortment, and the participation of victims and strange Liberians within the pursuit of prison accountability. – Edited by Othello B. Garblah.
