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87 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 707.
88 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 819.
89 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 909.
90 TRC Diaspora Statement Recs. 544 and 909.
91 TRC Diaspora Statement Recs. 1004, 1502, 1475,
1324.
92 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1324.
93 Id.
94 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1502.
95 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1475.
96 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1324.
97 TRC Diaspora Statement Recs. 1502 and 1324.
98 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1440. Another
statement giver stated that civilians always fled to
the embassy during the war for rescue and help, but
the embassy never provided Liberian civilians with
any aid. TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1559.
99 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1440.
100 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1352.
101 Id.
102 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1551.
103 See, e.g., TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 188.
104 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 105.
105 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 113.
106 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 15; see also TRC
Diaspora Statement Rec. 1351 (faulting the U.S. for
failing to intervene and withdrawing aid).
107 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1551.
108 TRC Diaspora Statement Recs. 15 and 648.
109 Dr. Augustine Konneh, Testimony at the Diaspora
Public Hearings of the Truth & Reconciliation
Comm’n of Liberia 24 (June 10, 2008, St. Paul,
Minn., U.S.A.) (transcript on file with the author).
110 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1551.
111 UN Stalls Decision on Liberia Troops, bbC news,
June 30, 2003, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/
africa/3033934.stm.
112 Id.
113 U.S. Dept. of State, Liberia Chronology June 12,
2003 to August 18, 2003, at 4 (on file with author,
FOIA); White House, President Reaffirms Strong
Position on Liberia, Remarks by the President and
United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan
298
in Photo Opportunity, The Oval Office, July
14, 2003, http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/
releases/2003/07/20030714-3.html.
114 Liberia Chronology, supra note 113, at 5.
115 In early July 2003, President Bush explained that
“[i]n order for there to be peace and stability in
Liberia, Charles Taylor needs to leave now.” Scott
Stearns, Liberia’s Charles Taylor Needs to Leave Now, says
Bush, voiCe of AmeriCA, July 2, 2003, http://www.
globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/2003/07/
mil-030702-voa09.htm. State Department
documents suggest that President Bush began
demanding that President Taylor step down as early
as June 26, 2003, with another demand on July 3,
2003. Liberia Chronology, supra note 113, at 4-5.
116 Office of the Press Secretary, supra note 113.
117 Herman J. Cohen, Former Asst. Sec’y of State for
African Affairs, Testimony at the Diaspora Public
Hearings of the Truth & Reconciliation Comm’n of
Liberia 74 (June 12, 2008, St. Paul, Minn., U.S.A.)
(transcript on file with the author).
118 U.S. Policy Toward Liberia: Hearing Before the Subcomm.
on Africa of the Committee on International Relations House
of Representatives, 108 th Cong. 28 (2003) (statement of
Alex Vines, Senior Researcher, Business and Human
Rights Division, Human Rights Watch).
119 Id. (statement of Rep. Meeks, Member, Subcommittee
on Africa).