{"id":216259,"date":"2025-12-10T14:47:55","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T12:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-post-war-liberias-ongoing-quest-to-reverse-the-culture-of-impunity\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T14:47:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T12:47:55","slug":"liberia-post-war-liberias-ongoing-quest-to-reverse-the-culture-of-impunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-post-war-liberias-ongoing-quest-to-reverse-the-culture-of-impunity\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Post-War Liberia&#8217;s Ongoing Quest to Reverse the Culture of Impunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Two decades after Liberia&#8217;s civil wars ended, new laws are a chance to learn from past mistakes that impeded transitional justice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"54\">Liberian senators have introduced two separate bills to establish a war crimes court and a specialised economic and corruption crimes court. This aligns with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission&#8217;s (TRC) 2009 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trcofliberia.org\/resources\/reports\/final\/volume-two_layout-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recommendation<\/a> to establish an extraordinary criminal tribunal to prosecute former warlords and criminal perpetrators of Liberia&#8217;s 14-year civil wars, including&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512100420.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"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>Two decades after Liberia&#8217;s civil wars ended, new laws are a chance to learn from past mistakes that impeded transitional justice. Liberian senators have introduced two separate bills to establish a war crimes court and a specialised economic and corruption crimes court. This aligns with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission&#8217;s (TRC) 2009 recommendation to establish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":216260,"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":[258,256,7915,10825,4712,1107,8536,257,9242,24580,8870,10164,254],"class_list":["post-216259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-culture","tag-impunity","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-liberias","tag-news","tag-ongoing","tag-postwar","tag-quest","tag-reverse","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/216259","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=216259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}