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giver, rape of statement giver’s sister-in-law, and
burning of their house).
33 Bai Gbala, Testimony at the Diaspora Public
Hearings of the Truth & Reconciliation Comm’n
of Liberia 7 (June 12, 2008, St. Paul, Minn., U.S.A.)
(transcript on file with author). Due to pressure
from the international community, Taylor granted
clemency to Gbala and the others on July 21, 2001
and released them after three years. Id. at 7-8.
34 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1325.
35 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 479.
36 E.g., TRC Diaspora Statement Recs. 430, 438, 444,
445, 479, 484, 494, 623, 637, 665, 668, 672, 679, 680,
1099, 1122, 1124, 1133, 1149.
37 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1646.
38 E.g., TRC Diaspora Statement Recs. 16, 585, 1481.
39 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 16.
40 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 16.
41 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1330.
42 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1529.
43 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 866.
44 See, e.g., TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1646
(describing her mother going to run an errand in a
suburb of Monrovia and being separated from the
statement giver and her brother for months by the
rebel advance).
45 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 637.
46 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 176.
47 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1515.
48 Id.
49 Id.
50 Id.
51 Memorandum from Commanding Officer of Marine
Medium Helicopter Squadron 261 to Commandant of
the Marine Corps regarding Command Chronology
for Period 1 July 1990 through 31 December 1990
at 8-9, dated January 10, 1991 (on file with author,
FOIA); Michael R. Gordon, U.S. Forces Evacuate 74
After Threats in Liberia, n.y. times, Aug. 6, 1990;
lAuren PloCH, Cong. reseArCH serviCe, AfriCA
CommAnd: u.s. strAtegiC interests & tHe role of
tHe u.s. militAry in AfriCA 36 (2007), http://www.
fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RL34003.pdf.
52 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 648.
377
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53 robin dunn-mArCos et Al., Ctr. for APPlied
linguistiCs, liberiAns: An introduCtion to tHeir
History And Culture 26-27 (Donald A. Ranard
ed., 2005), http://www.cal.org/co/liberians/
liberian_050406_1.pdf. See generally, Ayodeji
olukoju, Culture And Customs of liberiA 91-104
(2006).
54 See infra text accompanying notes 535 – 580
55 See supra section on Family-Level Impact for
additional discussion.
56 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1350.
57 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 184.
58 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1277.
59 Id.
60 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 478.
61 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1352 .
62 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 468; see also TRC
Diaspora Statement Rec. 187.
63 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1303.
64 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1448.
65 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1482.
66 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 741.
67 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1424.
68 Ali Sylla, Testimony at the Diaspora Public Hearings
of the Truth & Reconciliation Comm’n of Liberia 12
(June 13, 2008, St. Paul, Minn., U.S.A.) (transcript
on file with the author).
69 Ali Sylla, Testimony at the Diaspora Public Hearings
of the Truth & Reconciliation Comm’n of Liberia 12
(June 13, 2008, St. Paul, Minn., U.S.A.) (transcript
on file with the author).
70 Checkpoints were also a phenomenon during the
Doe era between 1980 and 1989. A statement giver
now living in Atlanta told the TRC that “Doe soldiers
were [giving] Liberian people [a] hard time by taking
money from them at checkpoints. If traveling out of
town, they would take food and money from you.”
TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1303.
71 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1352.
72 E.g., TRC Diaspora Statement Recs. 16, 36 and 116.
73 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 32.
74 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1303.
75 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 187.
76 Tabay is a method of binding prisoners with arms