Liberia: War Crimes Court Office Gets Promised Government Funding As Director and Activists Engage in Public War of Words

Summary:

• Liberia’s War and Economic Crimes Court Office chief dismissed a civil society-drafted bill to establish a war and economics crimes court as “mischief” and a “distraction,” and said his office would submit its own draft bills to President Joseph Boakai within days.
• Civil society leaders, led by the Independent National Commission on Human Rights, defended their submission of an alternate bill to the Senate, saying delays are undermining the process and raising doubts about the Office’s…