A House with Two Rooms - The Advocates for Human Rights

(transcript on file with the author).
117 The Stockholm Syndrome is a condition sometimes
found among hostages. In this case, both the captives
and captors begin to believe they are experiencing
similar problems, leading to the development of
joint sympathy and a shared identity. David Lloyd
Roberts, Int’l Comm. of the Red Cross, Staying
Alive: Safety and Security Guidelines for Humanitarian
Volunteers in Conflict Areas 151-52 (2005), http://icrc.
org/web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/htmlall/p0717/$File/
ICRC_002_0717.PDF!Open.
118 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 182.
119 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1559.
120 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1408.
121 TRC Diaspora Statement Recs. 1412 and 974.
122 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 974.
123 TRC Diaspora Statement Recs.1351 and 1346.
124 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1351.
125 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 163.
126 Id.
127 Id.
128 Jane Samukai, Testimony at the Diaspora Public
Hearings of the Truth & Reconciliation Comm’n of
Liberia, at 12 (June 13, 2008, St. Paul, Minn., U.S.A.)
(transcript on file with the author).
129 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1284.
130 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1295.
131 “African Science,” or “juju,” is defined as “techniques
of offence or defense which were rooted in local
religious traditions rather than in either Islam or
Christianity.” Stephen Ellis, Mystical Weapons: Some
Evidence from the Liberian War, 31 j. religion in Afr.
222, abstract (May 2001).
132 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 511.
133 reHn & joHnson sirleAf, supra note 10, at 12-13.
134 See, e.g., Liberia’s Women Killers, BBC news, Aug. 26,
2003, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3181529.
stm.
135 Human Rights Watch, How to Fight, How to
Kill 29, Feb. 1, 2004, http://www.hrw.org/en/
reports/2004/02/01/how-fight-how-kill.
136 International Labor Organization, supra note 115, at
23.
137 Id. See chapter 9 for more information.
258
138 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1415.
139 Id.
140 Doris Parker, Testimony at the Diaspora Public
Hearings of the Truth & Reconciliation Comm’n of
Liberia, at 8 (June 13, 2008, St. Paul, Minn., U.S.A.)
(transcript on file with the author).
141 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 215.
142 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 856.
143 Id.
144 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 154.
145 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1603.
146 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 522.
147 Id.
148 Id.
149 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1345.
150 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 348.
151 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1575.
152 Id.
153 Id.
154 u.n. HigH Comm’r for refugees, 2005 UNHCR
Statistical Yearbook: Liberia 400-401 (2007)
(listing the total number of Liberian refugees in
1996 at 784,008), http://www.unhcr.org/statistics/
STATISTICS/4641be64d.pdf.
155 Id.
156 Africa Faith & Justice Network, Action Alert on
Liberia (May 9, 1996), http://www.africaaction.org/
docs96/lib9605.1.htm (last visited Nov. 26, 2008).
157 Friends of Liberia, Liberia: Opportunities and
Obstacles for Peace (Dec. 1996), http://www.africa.
upenn.edu/Urgent_Action/apic_122396.html.
158 See Chapter 13 for further discussion.
159 Swiss & Giller, Rape as a Crime of War, 270 j. Am.
med. Ass’n 612-13 (1993).
160 U.N. Country Team, supra note 41, at 22.
161 u.s. deP’t of stAte, Country rePorts on HumAn
rigHts PrACtiCes for 2005: liberiA (2006), http://
www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61577.htm.
162 See Shana Swiss & Joan E. Giller, Rape as a Crime of
War, 270 j. Am. med. Ass’n 614 (1993) at 613.
163 Miamen Wopea , Testimony at the Diaspora Public
Hearings of the Truth & Reconciliation Comm’n
of Liberia (June 14, 2008, St. Paul, Minn., U.S.A.)
(transcript on file with the author).