A House with Two Rooms - The Advocates for Human Rights

21 Promises of Peace, supra note 7 at 5.
22 U.N. Comm’n on Human Rights, Report of the High
Commissioner for Human Rights: Situation of human
rights and fundamental freedoms in Liberia 15, E/
CN.4/2004/5 (Aug. 8, 2003), http://www.unhchr.
ch/html/liberia.doc.
23 Easy Prey, supra note 7, at 3.
24 Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers,
Global Report on Child Soldiers 2001 266 (Apr. 2001)
[hereinafter Global Report 2001], http://www.childsoldiers.org/library/global-reports.
25 Id.
26 UNICEF, Progress of Nations, supra note 6, at 28. See
also TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1600 (describing
his recruitment at age seven).
27 Easy Prey, supra note 7, at 32-33.
28 Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers, Child
Soldiers Global Report 2004 3 (2004) [hereinafter
Global Report 2004], http://www.child-soldiers.org/
library/global-reports.
29 U.N. Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Liberia: Donor
update, May 9, 2005, http://www.unicef.org/
infobycountry/files/Liberia_DU_9May2005.pdf
30 Global Report 2004, supra note 28, at 3.
31 Global Report 2001, supra note 24, at 266.
32 The Secretary-General, Report of the Secretary-General
on children and armed conflict, 56, delivered to the
Security Council, S/2006/826, A/61/529 (Oct. 26,
2006), http://www.un.org/docs/sc/Sgrep06.htm.
33 Easy Prey, supra note 7, at § 1.
34 Easy Prey, supra note 7, at 5.
35 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 97.
36 See Chapter 7 for more discussion of tactics used by
fighting factions during the civil wars in Liberia.
37 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 888.
38 Id.
39 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 97.
40 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 452.
41 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1462.
42 Id.
43 Id.
44 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 421.
45 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 425.
46 E.g., TRC Diaspora Statement Recs. 317 and 325.
220
See also TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 63 (describing
burying the corpses of those who refused to join
Chuckie Taylor’s ATU).
47 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 402.
48 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 421.
49 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 317.
50 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 460 (describing the
abduction of statement giver’s 13-year-old brother
while passing through a checkpoint, after which he
was forced to fight for one year).
51 TRC Diaspora Statement Recs. 875 (describing an
“army car” decorated with human genitals stopping
as he walked on a road, picking him up, and taking
him to a base camp, where he became a member
of a Small Boys Unit), 403 (describes the statement
giver’s conscription after he “met up with INPFL”
forces, was put in a car, taken away, and forced to
fight) and 120 (describing the statement givers’
random abduction from the street by LPC forces).
52 TRC Diaspora Statement Recs. 38, 39, 462.
53 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 415.
54 Easy Prey, supra note 7, at 26.
55 Id. at 26-27.
56 Id. at 27.
57 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 97.
58 Easy Prey, supra note 7, at 27.
59 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 230.
60 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 836.
61 Id.
62 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1562.
63 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 230.
64 Id.
65 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 888.
66 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 176.
67 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 426.
68 Easy Prey, supra note 7, at 29
69 Id. at 27. See Violence Perpetrated by Child Soldiers
in this chapter for more information.
70 Carrie E. Kimmel & Jini L. Rob, Institutionalized Child
Abuse: The Use of Child Soldiers, 50 int’l soCiAl work
740, 743 (2007).
71 Amos sAwyer, beyond Plunder 23-24 (2005).
72 Kimmel & Rob, supra note 70, at 743.