The March for Justice Campaign, an organization comprising Liberians based in the USA says it is in full support of the upcoming peaceful March for Justice and Accountability and Memorial service planned for next Monday in Monrovia.
In a press statement released on Thursday, the group says the ultimate objective of the November 12, 2018 planned demonstration in the Liberian capital is to end impunity and ensure the establishment of the War and Economic Crimes Court in our dear country, Liberia.
According to the pro war crimes court group, “the pending peaceful protest march, which takes place at the Slipway Field in central Monrovia by the campaigners and victims for justice, will no doubt further our collective efforts to end impunity and ensure the distribution of resources to every citizen in Liberia, irrespective of social status in society.”
The MARCH FOR JUSTICE CAMPAIGN was set as a pressure group to ensure the establishment of a war and economic crimes court in Liberia and that the financiers and executors of the 14 years civil war that led to the deaths of some 250,000 people are held accountable for their actions.
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This group vows that it will never waiver in its resolve to peacefully and orderly campaigning for all perpetrators (big and small, high and low) are brought to book the carnage meted out against innocent citizens as well as the pillaging of our country’s resources over the year.
“We will indeed not relent in pursuing our resolve that the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) report is implemented to the letter without delay by the CDC government of President George Manneh Weah, something that his predecessor, former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf failed to do for the 12 years she was in power,” the March for Justice added.
In the 2010 final report, Liberia’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) called for those who bear the greatest responsibilities for the years of carnage to be prosecuted.
And in its conclusion, the TRC report said:
- “All factions to the Liberian conflict are responsible for abuses, including war crimes and crimes against humanity.
- The massive wave of gross violations and atrocities assumed a systematic pattern of abuse.
- All factions committed gender-based violence against women and recruited children to participate in acts of violence.
- “External state actors in Africa, North America and Europe participated, supported, aided, abetted, conspired and instigated violence, war and regime change for political, economic and foreign policy advantages and gains (Consolidated Final Report, Vol. II, p. 18).
The TRC advised for “the establishment of an Extraordinary Criminal Tribunal for Liberia and named individuals, corporations and institutions recommended for prosecution or, in some cases, for further investigation.”
The statement of the March for Justice continues: ”Because it is a well-known fact that justice delayed is justice denied, the tens of thousands of victims of war and economic crimes as well as crimes against humanity both in Liberia and abroad can no longer wait to get the justice they so rightfully deserve.”
The pro war crimes pressure group further recounts that “Thousands of victims of war and economic crimes can no longer wait to see closure being brought to their years and decades of grief, pain and trauma experienced at the hands of warlords, financiers and perpetrators of systematic acts of crime against humanity; most of whom have not even given them the courtesy of asking for forgiveness.”
It is against this backdrop, that the MARCH FOR JUSTICE CAMPAIGN urges all peace-loving and justice-thirsty Liberians to turn out in masse on November 12, 2018 and join the campaigners and victims for justice in a peacefully standing up for justice at the Slipway Field Monrovia, the statement from the group concludes.