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118 Ali Sylla, Testimony at the Diaspora Public Hearings
of the Truth & Reconciliation Comm’n of Liberia
14-15 (June 13, 2008, St. Paul, Minn., U.S.A.)
(transcript on file with the author).
119 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 105.
120 Abuses at Home and Across Borders, supra note 5, at 6, 9.
121 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 707.
122 Abuses at Home and Across Borders, supra note 5, at 9.
123 E.g., TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 741 (“My
neighbor [and I] went by car to Mali. I was put
in jail for a week in Mali because I did not have
documents.”); TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 472.
124 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 459.
125 E.g., Abuses at Home and Across Borders, supra note 5, at
7.
126 Id.
127 Id. at 8.
128 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1457.
129 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 34.
130 Id. The Tano River was a Ghanaian vessel sent to
evacuate Ghanaian nationals but it also carried
Liberians to safety. TRC Diaspora Statement Recs.
593, 1567, 1572, 1579, 178.
131 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 34.
132 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1738.
133 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 34.
134 Francis Kpatindé, Liberia – Shaking Off Bad Memories,
106 refugees mAg., Dec. 1, 1996, http://www.
unhcr.org/publ/PUBL/3b5833e5f.html.
135 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1351.
136 Cynthia Jikpamu, Overcoming the Liberian Nightmare,
107 refugees mAg., Mar. 1, 1997, http://www.
unhcr.org/publ/PUBL/3b66ce692.html.
137 diCk, forCed migrAtion online supra note 30, §
2.4.1.
138 Kpatindé, supra note 134.
139 Id.
140 Sierra Leone Web, Sierra Leone News: May 1996-
May 14, http://www.sierra-leone.org/Archives/
slnews0596.html.
141 Id.
142 E.g., TRC Diaspora Statement Recs. 437, 464, 484,
494, 586. See Chapter 7’s section on Deployment of
ECOMOG for additional discussion.
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143 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 586.
144 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 15.
145 See Appendix C: Protections for Refugees in
International Law for additional discussion.
146 dunn-mArCos et Al., supra note 53, at 21.
147 UNHCR, stAtistiCAl yeArbook, supra note 2, at
400-01.
148 Liberia: UNHCR to Promote Voluntary Repatriation
Following Positive Changes, unHCr briefing notes.
Feb. 17, 2006, http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/
vtx/print?tbl=NEWS&id=43f5b0c611.
149 The Secretary-General, Sixteenth Progress Report of
the Secretary-General on the United Nations Mission in
Liberia, 12, delivered to the Security Council, U.N. Doc.
S/2008/183 (Mar. 19, 2008), http://www.un.org/
Docs/sc/sgrep08.htm.
150 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1515.
151 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1383.
152 See supra note 146.
153 tom kuHlmAn, unHCr PoliCy And evAluAtion
unit, resPonding to ProtrACted refugee
situAtions: A CAse study of liberiAn refugees
in Côte d’ivoire 11 (2002), http://www.unhcr.org/
publ/RESEARCH/3d4006412.pdf.
154 Id.
155 Id. at 12.
156 Id.
157 U.N. High Comm’r for Refugees, stAtistiCAl
yeArbook, supra note 2, at 400-01.
158 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 588.
159 E.g., TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 457, 447.
160 TRC Diaspora Statement Recs. 439, 440, 446, 453.
161 kuHlmAn, supra note 153, at 22.
162 Id.
163 E.g., TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 651. See also
kuHlmAn, supra note 153, at 24.
164 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 478.
165 kuHlmAn, supra note 153, at 24; Abuses at Home and
Across Borders, supra note 5, at 7.
166 See, e.g., TRC Diaspora Statement Recs. 428, 465, 391.
167 dunn-mArCos et Al., supra note 53, at 21.
168 Id.
169 Fati Kaba, Tensions in Côte d’Ivoire Affect UNHCR