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****** Liberia: Civil Society Group Protests TRC Report ******
By J. Nathaniel Daygbor
10 August 2009
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A group calling itself the National Consciousness Movement of Liberia last
Friday staged a citywide demonstration to protest the report released by the
Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in which it recommended prosecution
of former warring faction leaders and some of their associates as well as a
thirty-year debarment from public office of certain Liberians including
president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf for their support of the war.
Dozens of the anti-TRC report marchers took to the streets caring placards that
condemned commissioners of the TRC for releasing a report which according to
them is not in the best interest of peace and reconciliation.
Most of the demonstrators were university students, community dwellers, women
and children acting under the banner of the National Consciousness Movement of
Liberia, an NGO said to be new in Liberia.
The demonstrators denounced the report terming it "a channel that may create
unrest in the country if implemented."
The demonstrators who presented a position statement to the Special
Representative of the Economy Community of West Africa (ECOWAS) alleged that
the TRC Commissioners went contrary to the Act that created commission.
The group said that the creation of the TRC was intended to bring peace;
stability, harmony; and to heal the wounds created as a result of war and those
victimized by warlords. They said it was not to create conditions that may
hinder already fragile peace process.
The head of the National Consciousness Movement Madam Muna Kamara described the
report as 'evil genius and anti peace'.
She said the report was not in the interest of the Liberian people and any
attempt to implement it will cause Liberians to lose the golden opportunity
that has attracted many in the global community to aiding Liberia and that the
international community may not take Liberia serious.
Receiving the statement, Professor Roosevelt Jayjay accepted the statement and
promised to deliver the document to the appropriate authority.
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