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Grand Kru County Senator Blamo Nelson and LPRC managing director Harry Greaves are amongst several prominent Liberians to appear before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Liberia (TRC) next week.

Montserrado County, Liberia
17 October, 2008
Categorized as pertaining to: Hearings

Senator Nelson will be the first to testify Monday before commissioners of the TRC to be followed Tuesday by Mr. Jackson E. Doe, minister of transport and brother of the late President Samuel Kanyon Doe.

Mr. Greaves will take the witness stand Wednesday and on Thursday prominent politician Tonia King will testify.

University lecturer and vice standard bearer of the New Deal Movement, Professor Alaric Tokpah will climax the hearings for next week with his appearance on Friday.

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.

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