Posts Tagged ‘TRC’
Get your Ellen Johnson Sirleaf on
Women’s Voices for Change ran an extended version of my interview with the Liberian president. Here’s some of the material that didn’t make it into the Newsweek interview. If you want to know how to prioritize in a country that needs everything, what EJS thinks about reconciliation after the TRC recommended banning her from office, [...]
Of warlords, Judaism, and cell phone porn
Glenna Gordon has an impressive exclusive in Foreign Policy today, an interview with Liberian warlord-turned-senator Prince Johnson. One of my favorite parts of the interview is that Other (Bigger?) Warlord Charles Taylor’s then-recent conversion to Judaism came up: Johnson implied the conversion was self-serving, because Taylor thinks American leaders are Jews…while Johnson’s own, two-graphs earlier [...]
Is Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf a war criminal?
The Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission doesn’t quite say yes…but it does say that perhaps the much-lauded president of the new Liberia has more to answer for than she necessarily admits. In today’s TIME.com, Glenna Gordon writes: In its final report, released yesterday, Liberia’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), a body modeled on South Africa’s [...]
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