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Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Interview Part 3

Friday, October 30, 2009 8:58 No Comments

Continued from Part 1 and Part 2
Palava Hut: The Abuja Treaty indicates that factional heads should participate in the May 1997 elections. Some Liberians are vehemently opposed to that proposition. They say that any decision to go after an elected rebel would be far from unanimous, so they would “let principle count now for something [...]

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Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf Interview Part 2

Friday, October 30, 2009 8:53 No Comments

Continued from Part 1
Palava Hut: The Abuja Accord has set a deadline of January 31, 1997, for total disarmament, demobilization and repatriation. Is that deadline realistically achievable? If so, how; if not, why?

Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf: My personal view is there might be some slippage, and that is because the process got started a bit late. Secondly, [...]

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