'Evidence Will Be Battleground For War Crimes Court in Liberia'

Liberians home and abroad have expressed excitement over President Joseph Boakai's decision to issue an executive order for the creation of an office of War and Economic Crimes in Liberia - a major step towards the actual establishment of a court to prosecute perpetrators of the country's civil war. "But evidence gathering might be the new battleground", writes Aaron Weah for Justice Info Net.

Weah argues that the Liberian society is now stratified between the millennials and the pre-war generation - which represents the generation that experienced the violence. He said the memory of the conflict with this group is fading with Liberia only now beginning to look into war crimes 34 years after the conflict began.

This article originally appeared on AllAfrica

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