There are reports that
plans are afoot for some prominent Liberians to face justice for their alleged
role played in the Liberian 14- year civil crisis. The Liberian civil crisis,
which officially ended in 2013, claimed over 250,000 lives and brought the
country to its knees.
Several warring factions n
ow disbanded participated in the
blooded civil war.
Notably among them were: the dreaded National Patriotic Front of
Liberia (NPFL) of former Liberian President Charles Ghankay Taylor now serving
a 50-year-jail term for his involvement in the civil war in neighboring Sierra
Leone, the Independent National Patriotic Front of Liberia (INPFL), which was
headed by Prince Y. Johnson now Senator of Nimba County, United Liberation
Movement of Liberia(ULIMO-K&J) headed by University of Liberia(UL) Professor
Alhaji GV Kromah and the late Roosevelt Johnson, the Liberia United For
Reconciliation and Democracy(LURD) headed by Demate Konneh and the Movement of
Democracy in Liberia(MODEL) headed by Thomas Yaya Nimely, who served as
Minister of Foreign Affairs during the erstwhile National Transitional
Government of Liberia(NTGL). The NTGL was headed by businessman turned
politician Charles Gyude Bryant. Bryant died last year following a protracted
illness.
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