Liberia: War Crimes Courts Supposed to Bring Inclusive Justice but Victims Say They Are Being Excluded

Monrovia — It’s a mantra repeated by government officials, activists and the international community: Liberia’s victims and survivors must be at the heart of efforts to bring justice for crimes committed in the country’s long civil wars that ended in 2003. But now the office to establish the War and Economic Crimes Courts is finally taking shape, victims and survivors say they have been excluded from the process.

Victims groups say they were not consulted in the Legislature’s passage of the…