Nimba County senior senator Prince Y. Johnson, the leader of the defunct Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy (LURD) Sekou Damante Conneh and Governance Commission Chairman Dr. Amos Sawyer will this week testify before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Liberia (TRC).
Mr. Johnson, leader of the defunct Independent National Patriotic Front of Liberia (INPFL) will be the first to testify Tuesday before commissioners of the TRC to be followed by Mr. Conneh Wednesday and Dr. Sawyer, former interim president of the Interim Government of National Unity (IGNU) Thursday.
Their appearance is part of the ongoing "Contemporary History of the Conflict (1979-2003)" Institutional and Thematic Inquiry Hearings of the Commission at the historic Centennial Memorial Pavilion in Monrovia.
Under the theme: "Understanding the Conflict Through its Principal Events and Actors," the ongoing hearings are addressing the root causes of the conflict, including its military and political dimensions.
The hearings are focused on events between 1979 and 2003 and the national and external actors that helped to shape those events.
The TRC was agreed upon in the August 2003 peace agreement and created by the TRC Act of 2005.
The TRC was established to "promote national peace, security, unity and reconciliation," and at the same time make it possible to hold perpetrators accountable for gross human rights violations and violations of international humanitarian law that occurred in Liberia between January 1979 and October 2003.
