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521 Office of Global Health Affairs U.S. DHHS,
Background on Potential Health Issues for Liberian
Refugees (Jan. 30, 2004), http://www.brycs.org/
documents/ft_brycs0847.pdf.
522 TRC Diaspora Statement Recs. 1004, 1337, 1555,
1738.
523 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1475.
524 Telephone interview with Dr. Patricia Jabbeh-
Wesley, Professor, Pennsylvania State Univ. (May
5, 2008); see also 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).
525 Interview with Ada Beh, Co-founder, Minnesota
African Women’s Association (MAWA),
Minneapolis, Minn. (Sept. 4, 2008); see also
Telephone interview with Dr. Patricia Jabbeh-
Wesley, Professor, Pennsylvania State Univ. (Sept.
23, 2008) (noting that Liberians are “afraid to seek
mental health [assistance], because they are afraid to
be seen as mentally ill [by other Liberians]. I’m sure
if you put them in another place where there are no
Liberians, I am sure they would go for help.”)
526 Office of Global Health Affairs, U.S. Dep’t of
Health and Human Services, Background on
Potential Health Issues for Liberian Refugees 20
(Jan. 30, 2004), http://www.brycs.org/documents/
ft_brycs0847.pdf.
527 Id.
528 TRC Diaspora Statement Recs. 122, 784, 1254, 1434,
1444, 1611.
529 Telephone interview with C. Hendrix Grupee,
United Nimba Citizens Council, (June 7 & 8, 2008).
530 See Interview with Ada Beh, Co-founder,
Minnesota African Women’s Association (MAWA),
Minneapolis, Minn. (Sept. 4, 2008).
531 Id.
532 Id.
533 A notable exception is the trial of Chuckie Taylor,
son of Charles Taylor. Chuckie Taylor, whose actions
during the Liberian civil conflict were notorious, was
arrested in the United States on immigration fraud
charges and ultimately was convicted of criminal
torture under 18 U.S.C. § 2340A. Chuckie Taylor is a
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U.S. citizen.
Sharon Schmickle, Stories from more survivors, stAr
trib. (Feb. 20, 2007), http://www.startribune.com/
local/11551991.html.
535 TRC Diaspora Project Focus Group, Providence,
supra note 356.
536 Interview with Doris Parker, Exec. Dir., Liberian
Women’s Initiative – Minnesota (LIWIM),
537
Minneapolis, Minn., (Aug. 1, 2008).
See generally id.
538 Id.
539 Id.
540 TRC Diaspora Project Focus Group, Providence,
supra note 356.
541 TRC Diaspora Project Focus Group, Washington,
D.C. (May 18, 2008); TRC Diaspora Statement Recs.
183, 1254, 1551.
542 TRC Diaspora Project Focus Group, Washington,
supra note 541.
543 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1611.
544 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1611.
545 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1302.
546 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1373.
547 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1551.
548 TRC Diaspora Project Focus Group, Providence,
supra note 356.
549 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 107.
550 See Dr. Mariah Seton Threatens ULAA Elections...Points
To Boycott of Chapters, tHe liberiAn journAl, Oct.
2, 2008, http://www.theliberianjournal.com/index.
php?st=news&sbst=details&rid=544&comesOfT
heHome=1; Nat G. Gbessagee & Sylvestine Payne,
Major ULAA Actors Discuss Elections Crisis on Friday,
tHe liberiAn journAl, Sept. 19, 2008, http://www.
theliberianjournal.com/index.php?st=news&sbst=d
etails&rid=508&comesOfTheHome=1.
551 Abdullah Kiatamba, Liberians In Staten Island
Cancel Elections...Hold Service for July 26, tHe
liberiAn journAl, July 26, 2008, http://www.
theliberianjournal.com/index.php?st=news&sbs
t=details&rid=372&comesOfTheHome=1; Kirk
Semple, Political Dissension Troubles Liberian Groups on
Staten Island, July 28, 2008, n.y. times, http://www.
nytimes.com/2008/07/28/nyregion/28liberians.
html.