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Women’s Association (MAWA), Minneapolis, Minn.
(Sept. 4, 2008).
422 Interview with Ishmael Komara, Liberian
Mandingo community leader, Minneapolis, Minn.
(May 28, 2008); Interview with Patrick Kugmeh,
former Liberian government official and diaspora
community leader, Minneapolis, Minn. (Oct. 3,
2008) (noting that Liberian children can be viewed
as “troublesome children” because the way things
are done in the U.S. is different from in Liberia).
423 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1322; see also Telephone
interview with Jefferson Cooper, Liberian diaspora
journalist, Minneapolis, Minn. (Sept. 26, 2008);
Interview with Patrick Kugmeh, former Liberian
government official and diaspora community leader,
Minneapolis, Minn., at 74-79 (Oct. 3, 2008).
424 TRC Diaspora Project Focus Group, Providence,
supra note356; TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1477.
425 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec.1555.
426 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1373.
427 See generally Garswah Blacktom, Testimony at
the Diaspora Public Hearings of the Truth &
Reconciliation Comm’n of Liberia 16, 53 (June 11,
2008, St. Paul, Minn., U.S.A.) (transcript on file with
author); Interview with Doris Parker, Exec. Dir.,
Liberian Women’s Initiative – Minnesota (LIWIM),
Minneapolis, Minn., (Aug. 1, 2008).
428 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1477.
429 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1414.
430 Liberia: Truth, Reconciliation and Women’s Human
Rights after the Civil War, Presentation, Doris
Parker and Robin Phillips, Minneapolis, Aug. 12,
2008
431 Group interview with Mitzi Heath, Student
Assistance Counselor, Melody Hahn-Merges,
English Language Learners School Social Worker, &
Sandra Buechel, Social Worker, Park Center Senior
High School, Brooklyn Center, Minn. (June 4, 2008).
432 Id.
433 Id.
434 Telephone interview with Williametta Saydee-Tarr,
Prog. Coord., New Arrivals Resource Empowerment
Workshops, Refugee Services, Minn. Council of
Churches (Aug. 8, 2008).
435 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1137.
436 Interview with Doris Parker, Exec. Dir., Liberian
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Women’s Initiative – Minnesota (LIWIM),
Minneapolis, Minn., (Aug. 1, 2008).
437 Liberia: Truth, Reconciliation and Women’s Human
Rights after the Civil War, Presentation, Doris
Parker and Robin Phillips, Minneapolis, Aug. 12,
2008.
438 Lynette Murray Gibson, Testimony at the Diaspora
Public Hearings of the Truth & Reconciliation
Comm’n of Liberia 19 (June 14, 2008, St. Paul,
Minn., U.S.A.) (transcript on file with author).
439 Interview with Doris Parker, Exec. Dir., Liberian
Women’s Initiative – Minnesota (LIWIM),
Minneapolis, Minn., (Aug. 1, 2008).
440 Id.
441 TRC Diaspora Project Focus Group, Providence,
supra note 356.
442 Interview with Ada Beh, Co-founder, Minnesota
African Women’s Association (MAWA),
Minneapolis, Minn. (Sept. 4, 2008).
443 Id.
444 Telephone interview with Williametta Saydee-Tarr,
Prog. Coord., New Arrivals Resource Empowerment
Workshops, Refugee Services, Minn. Council of
Churches (Aug. 8, 2008).
445 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1329.
446 Telephone interview with Williametta Saydee-Tarr,
Prog. Coord., New Arrivals Resource Empowerment
Workshops, Refugee Services, Minn. Council of
Churches (Aug. 8, 2008).
447 TRC Diaspora Project Focus Group, Providence,
supra note 356.
448 Telephone interview with Williametta Saydee-Tarr,
Prog. Coord., New Arrivals Resource Empowerment
Workshops, Refugee Services, Minn. Council of
Churches (Aug. 8, 2008).
449 Telephone interview with Dr. Emmanuel Dolo,
Liberian diaspora academic (Sept. 30, 2008).
450 Telephone interview with John N. Brownell,
President, Union of Liberian Organizations – United
Kingdom (ULO-UK) (Oct. 6, 2008) (estimating the
entire UK Liberian population to be about 4,000-
5,000).
451 E.g., TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 522 (describing
the fact that statement giver left Liberia to work
as a nanny); Telephone interview with Dr. George
Flahn, President, Liberian Med. Assoc. in the United