Posted by Benjamin on: 01.09.2008 /
Yesterday Liberia’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission held its first public hearings. Along with the ongoing trial of former warlord and Liberian president Charles Taylor in the Hague, it marks an astoundingly hopeful turnaround for a nation that spent 10 years in the grip of one of the more horrifying civil wars of the 20th century. They’ve still a ton of work ahead of them, but I hope it will not be inappropriate for me to say tres HOORAY for Liberia. They’ve had a truly breathtaking turnaround in the last couple of years. Almost enough to make one hope for Kenya, and Darfur, and Iraq, and Palestine, and …
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