{"id":197446,"date":"2025-05-05T06:43:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T04:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-most-liberians-optimistic-that-war-and-economic-crimes-court-will-help-ensure-accountability\/"},"modified":"2025-05-05T06:43:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T04:43:15","slug":"liberia-most-liberians-optimistic-that-war-and-economic-crimes-court-will-help-ensure-accountability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-most-liberians-optimistic-that-war-and-economic-crimes-court-will-help-ensure-accountability\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Most Liberians Optimistic That War and Economic Crimes Court Will Help Ensure Accountability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Despite desire to &#8220;move on,&#8221; majority think new court will provide justice for victims of civil war crimes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\">Key findings<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A majority (58%) of Liberians say it is more important for citizens to be able to hold the government accountable than for the government to &#8220;get things done,&#8221; a 9- percentage-point decrease compared to 2022 (67%).<\/li>\n<li>In 2022, seven in 10 Liberians (70%) said the government should establish a war crimes court. o But 61% respondents said Liberians need to forget the crimes&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505050006.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite desire to &#8220;move on,&#8221; majority think new court will provide justice for victims of civil war crimes. Key findings A majority (58%) of Liberians say it is more important for citizens to be able to hold the government accountable than for the government to &#8220;get things done,&#8221; a 9- percentage-point decrease compared to 2022 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":197447,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[13948,258,256,6185,1922,3576,9925,4712,1107,6565,257,12030,254,6618],"class_list":["post-197446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-accountability","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-court","tag-crimes","tag-economic","tag-ensure","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-liberians","tag-news","tag-optimistic","tag-south-africa-today","tag-war"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}