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266 Id.
267 Id.
268 Id.
269 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 388.
270 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 164.
271 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 37.
272 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 149.
273 Id.
274 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 855.
275 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 972.
276 Dep’t of NGOs/CBOs of the Liberian Refugee
Welfare Council, List of NGOs/CBOs (Sept. 2007)
(on file with author).
277 E.g., TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 113 (“I am not
ready to go back to Liberia. There would be no help
for my children…I have heard that [the] repatriation
program is not helping with anything substantial for
anyone to truly start a life after returning home”).
278 E.g., TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 407 (“if I had to
go back to Liberia, I would kill myself”).
279 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 453.
280 E.g., TRC Diaspora Statement Recs. 936, 1124, 62,
249, 635, 1298, 1557, 1715, 1123, 1153, 99, 138, 170,
177, 210, 213, 215, 222, 289, 481, 484, 567, 573, 638,
644, 657, 680, 701, 733, 775, 779, 784, 800, 821, 827,
832, 835, 889, 907, 933, 966, 968, 1013, 1121, 1159,
1214, 1261, 1298, 1332, 1340, 1471, 1494, 1496, 1505,
1518, 1557, 1643, 1654, 1706, 1711.
281 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 589.
282 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 590.
283 E.g., TRC Diaspora Statement Recs. 212, 523, 1268,
783, 212, 217, 225, 462, 563, 577, 638, 692, 741, 744,
774, 909, 920, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109, 1110, 1190,
1334, 1421, 1469, 1517, 1700.
284 E.g., TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 641.
285 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 895.
286 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 107.
287 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 895 (describing
leaving her brother and sister behind on Buduburam
and noting that her brother has not been able to leave
because of accusations that he fought in the conflict);
TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 107 (describing
leaving his sister and her family behind).
288 See infra note 304. See generally also diCk, resPonding
384
to ProtrACted refugee situAtions, supra note 207,
at 29-30.
289 U.N. High Comm’r for Refugees, Ghana:
Deportation to Liberia, UNHCR Briefing Notes,
Mar. 25, 2008, http://www.unhcr.org/news/
NEWS/47e8f5722.html; Telephone interview with
Tenneh Kamara, Liberian Refugee Women (July 14,
2008).
290 Id.
291 Id.
292 Telephone interview with Tenneh Kamara, Liberian
Refugee Women (July 14, 2008); Telephone interview
with George Nimley, Assistant to the Liberian
Ambassador to Ghana (July 12, 2008).
293 Ghana-Liberia: Cessation Clause Invoked over Refugee
Demos, irin news, Mar. 20, 2008, http://
www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IR IN/
da4d8a135b90f8c2f8bfd9f5ec5236e6.htm.
294 U.N. High Comm’r for Refugees, Ghana: deportation
to Liberia, supra note 289.
295 U.N. High Comm’r for Refugees, Notice for
Refugees and Asylum-Seekers – Voluntary
Repatriation by Road to Liberia (Aug. 6, 2008) (on
file with author). Moreover, Liberians who are not
registered with UNHCR cannot participate in the
repatriation program. Id.
296 Telephone interview with Tenneh Kamara, Liberian
Refugee Women (Oct. 16, 2008).
297 Strongly reaffirms the fundamental importance
and the purely humanitarian and non-political
character of the function of the Office of the High
Commissioner of providing international protection
to refugees and seeking permanent solutions to
refugee problems, recalls that these solutions include
voluntary repatriation and, where appropriate and
feasible, local integration and resettlement in a third
country, reaffirming that voluntary repatriation
remains the preferred solution, supported by
necessary rehabilitation and development assistance
to facilitate sustainable reintegration.
G.A. Res. 57/187, 10, U.N. Doc. A/RES/57/187
(Feb. 6, 2003)
298 See u.s. dePt. of HomelAnd seCurity, yeArbook
of immigrAtion stAtistiCs: 2007, Table 14 (listing
refugee arrivals from Liberia for fiscal years 1998
to 2007 as 28,991), http://www.dhs.gov/ximgtn/