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of 12 August 1949, and Relating to the Protection
of Victims of Non-International Armed Conflicts
(Protocol II) art. 4(2)(c), entered into force Dec. 7, 1978,
1125 U.N.T.S. 609.
97 See, e.g., TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1522.
98 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1115.
99 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 156.
100 See, e.g., TRC Diaspora Statement Recs. 180, 1396,
1407.
101 See, e.g., TRC Diaspora Statement Recs. 1353, 1354.
102 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1011.
103 See, e.g, TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 196; see also
TRC Diaspora Statement Recs. 116 (“People who
had not worked for the government were pointing
out other people’s government connections to the
rebels.”), 1637 (“A man from the neighborhood who
knew the rebels led the rebels to the house.”) and
1527 (“The people in Greenville told the rebels who
the Krahn people in the town were.”).
104 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 655.
105 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1203.
106 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1034.
107 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1355 (describing how
ULIMO-K soldiers came to the statement giver’s
home, demanded that everyone come outside,
and then accused her brother of being a rebel
enemy; white cloth signified the residents were not
ULIMO-K enemies).
108 See also TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1524 (noting
that the rebels “sang songs about Charles Taylor
while they attacked the people”).
109 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 316.
110 Id.
111 Id.
112 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 15.
113 Id.
114 Telephone Interview by Sutherland Asbill & Brennan
LLP with Prof. William Reno (Mar. 10, 2008).
115 Id.
116 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 902.
117 Id.
118 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 903.
119 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 28.
120 Telephone Interview by Sutherland Asbill &
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Brennan LLP with Elizabeth Blunt, BBC West
Africa Correspondent (Mar. 12, 2008).
121 Id.
122 TRC Diaspora Statement Recs. 903 and 904.
123 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 904. Using satellite
phones to call the BBC, Taylor could report AFL
killings, which the BBC reportedly broadcast across
Liberia. Id.
124 Id.
125 gAbriel i. H. williAms, liberiA: tHe HeArt of
dArkness 90 (2002).
126 Telephone Interview by Sutherland Asbill &
Brennan LLP with Robin White, BBC Focus on Africa
editor (Mar. 24, 2008).
127 Jonathan Temin, Considering the Role of the BBC in
African Conflict, 30 rev. Afr. PolitiCAl eCon. 98,
656 (2003).
128 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 903.
129 Id.
130 Id.