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222 See Waging War to Keep the Peace, supra note 91.
223 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1440 (“In retaliation
for the ECOMOG soldiers’ aggression, Taylor lined
up and shot some of the nationals he had been
holding in captivity.”)
224 The Cycle of Abuse, supra note 40.
225 Liberian Rebel Boss Threatens Civilians, Courier mAil,
Aug. 23, 1990.
226 Liberian Rebels “Kill 200 Foreigners,” times (London),
Sept. 1, 1990.
227 For example, Taylor succeeded in taking 3,000
Nigerian nationals hostage at the Nigerian embassy.
Herbert Howe, Lessons of Liberia: ECOMOG and
Regional Peacekeeping, in nAtionAlism And etHniC
ConfliCt 267, 272 n.10 (Michael E. Brown, et al.
eds., rev. ed. 2001).
228 Liberian Rebel Boss Threatens Civilians, supra note 225.
229 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 236.
230 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 115.
231 Id.
232 Id.
233 Id.
234 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 28.
235 Liberian Rebel Boss Threatens Civilians, supra note
225; Klon Hinneh, Taylor Says He’ll Free 800 Foreign
Nationals, AssoC. Press, Aug. 29, 1991.
236 The Cycle of Abuse, supra note 40.
237 ECOMOG Bombs Airport; Nigerian Concern for Nurses
and Journalists, bbC rAdio, Oct. 2, 1990.
238 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1086.
239 deP’t of stAte Country rePorts 1990, supra note 7,
at 193.
240 Human Rights Watch, Liberia: Human Rights
Developments, 1990, http://www.hrw.org/
reports/1990/WR90/AFRICA.BOU-04.htm; The
Cycle of Abuse, supra note 40.
241 Peter Dennis, Int’l Center for Transitional Justice, A
Brief History of Liberia 10, May 2006, http://www.ictj.
org/static/Africa/Liberia/BriefHistory.pdf.
242 Id.
243 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 34.
244 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 119.
245 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 903.
246 Human Rights Watch, Human Rights Abuses by the
175
Chapter Seven
Liberian Peace Council and the Need for International
Oversight 4, May 17 [hereinafter Abuses by Liberian
Peace Council], 1994, http://www.hrw.org/en/
reports/1994/05/17/human-rights-abuses-liberianpeace-council-and-need-international-oversight.
247 The Cycle of Abuse, supra note 40.
248 deP’t of stAte Country rePorts 1990, supra note 7,
at 192.
249 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1476.
250 The Cycle of Abuse, supra note 40.
251 See generally id.
252 Waging War to Keep the Peace, supra note 91.
253 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 707.
254 Id.
255 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1375.
256 Waging War to Keep the Peace, supra note 91.
257 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1739.
258 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 42.
259 Waging War to Keep the Peace, supra note 91. U.N. Agency
Says 3,000 Feared Dead in Monrovia, reuters, Nov. 3,
1992.
260 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1739.
261 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1598.
262 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1375.
263 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 74.
264 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 42.
265 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1375.
266 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1731.
267 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1739.
268 Id.
269 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1375.
270 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 707.
271 Waging War to Keep the Peace, supra note 91.
272 Id.
273 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1632. See also Jane
Samukai, Testimony at the Diaspora Public Hearings
of the Truth & Reconciliation Comm’n of Liberia 4
(June 13, 2008, St. Paul, Minn., U.S.A.) (transcript
on file with author) (describing how NPFL rebels
took their home, vehicles, personal belongings, and
food when they invaded Monrovia).
274 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 22.
275 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1580.