A House with Two Rooms - The Advocates for Human Rights

Notes
1 See Steven Vertovec, The Political Importance of Diasporas
migrAtion informAtion sourCe (Migration Policy
Institute, Washington, DC, June 2005, http://
www.migrationinformation.org/Feature/display.
cfm?ID=313.
2 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) [hereinafter U.N High Comm’r
for Refugees, stAtistiCAl yeArbook], http://www.
unhcr.org/statistics/STATISTICS/4641be64d.pdf.
3 Id.
4 R. Baker, Psychological Consequences for Tortured Refugees
Seeking Asylum and Refugee Status in Europe, in torture
And its ConseQuenCes: Current treAtment
APProACHes 83-106 (M. Basoglu ed., 1992).
5 See Chapter 6 for a discussion of tactics used by
fighting factions during the war. See Amnesty Int’l,
Liberia: Civilians Face Human Rights Abuses at Home
and Across Borders 3, AI Index AFR 34/020/2002,
Oct. 1, 2002 [hereinafter Abuses at Home and Across
Borders], http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/
AFR34/020/2002.
6 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 36.
7 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1553.
8 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1367; see also, e.g., TRC
Diaspora Statement Recs. 589 and 1682.
9 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 211. ECOMOG refers
to the Economic Community of West African States
Monitoring Group peacekeeping force. Buchanan is
a coastal city to the south of Monrovia.
10 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1378.
11 Fourteen peace accords were signed between 1990 and
the end of the fighting in Liberia in 2003. PrisCillA
HAyner, Henry dunAnt Centre for HumAnitAriAn
diAlogue, negotiAting PeACe in liberiA:
Preserving tHe Possibility for justiCe 6, http://
www.ictj.org/static/Africa/Liberia/HaynerLiberia
1207.eng.pdf.
12 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 115.
13 Id.
14 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1646.
15 Id.
376
16 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 16.
17 Id.
18 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 182. The offices of the
TRC of Liberia are currently located on 9 th Street in
the Sinkor district of Monrovia.
19 See Chapter 4 for background discussion of ethnic
tensions.
20 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 65.
21 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 151.
22 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 478.
23 See Chapter 7.
24 E.g., TRC Diaspora Statement Recs. 32, 105, 1435,
1598, 1646, 1738.
25 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 707.
26 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 120.
27 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 28.
28 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 182.
29 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1616.
30 sHelly diCk, forCed migrAtion online,
reseArCH guide: liberiA § 2.4.1 (2003) [hereinafter
diCk, forCed migrAtion online], http://www.
forcedmigration.org/guides/fmo013/.
31 Human Rights Watch, World Report 1999 – Liberia
Human Rights Developments 49, 51 [hereinafter
Liberia Human Rights Developments], http://www.
hrw.org/legacy/worldreport99/africa/liberia.html;
Amnesty Int’l, Liberia: War in Lofa County Does Not
Justify Killing, Torture and Abduction, AI Index AFR
34/003/2001, May 1, 2001, http://www.amnesty.
org/en/library/info/AFR34/003/2001/en; World
Briefs, Hous. CHroniCle, Sept. 20, 1998, at 35; U.S.
Airlifts Opposition Leader Out of Liberia, n.y. times,
Sept. 26, 1998, at A3. After one week at the U.S.
embassy, Johnson was flown to Sierra Leone and
later to Nigeria, where he was jailed and made to
await trial for charges of treason. Liberia Human
Rights Developments, supra note 31, at 49, 51; Liberian
Dismisses U.S. Rescue of Rival, wAsH. Post, Sept. 27,
1998, at A32.
32 See, e.g., TRC Diaspora Statement Recs. 1452
(describing how Chuckie Taylor’s bodyguards
bayoneted a statement giver in his arm and neck,
causing deafness in one ear, and detained him in
jail) and 201 (describing the shooting and death
of statement giver’s daughter, knifing of statement