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- Together with the assistance of the international
community, develop and put in place a concrete strategy on the most
appropriate way to hold accountable perpetrators of war crimes committed
during Liberia’s armed conflicts.
- Implement the Governance and Economic Management
Assistance Program (GEMAP) to address ongoing concerns about corruption.
- Establish the Truth and Reconciliation Commission without
delay and ensure that the process of vetting current commissioners occurs
without political interference.
- The president and other public officials should not
appoint to public office individuals who are alleged to have been
responsible for serious violations of human rights, war crimes, or crimes
against humanity.
- The new government should establish an independent
commission charged with instituting a vetting process to screen out human
rights abusers appointed to or under consideration for civil service positions.
The commission must be empowered to dismiss any individual found to have
credible allegations of the commission of serious violations of human
rights and international humanitarian law, or of having been in a position
of command responsibility when abuses were committed.
- The commission should be composed of individuals without
direct links to military and political factions, and the process
established should include fair trial guarantees.
- The new president should oppose any legislation providing
for amnesty of any elected member of government from prosecution for
serious violations of international human rights or humanitarian law.
- Given concerns about the efficacy of the vetting process
for the new Liberian National Police, ensure that all final recruits for
the LNP go though an additional screening to eliminate those believed to
have committed serious human rights crimes.
- Ensure that information about recruits for the new
Liberian National Police and military which emerge during the investigation
stage of the TRC is taken into consideration in the selection and
retention of personnel for both institutions.
- Provide the necessary financial and material support to
allow the Independent National Commission on Human Rights, established
under the 2003 Accra Peace Accord, to effectively undertake its
responsibilities.
- Assist the Liberian government in developing and
undertaking a concrete strategy to hold accountable perpetrators of war
crimes committed during Liberia’s armed conflicts.
- Support the TRC with sufficient resources so that a
process of documenting atrocities and making recommendations for the
prosecution of alleged perpetrators can begin without delay.
- Support programs aimed at rehabilitating Liberia’s judicial system.
- Provide the required funding to cover the US $10 million
shortfall for the rehabilitation and reintegration phase of the Liberian
DDRR program.
- Call on the Nigerian government to surrender former
Liberian President Charles Taylor to the Special Court for Sierra Leone in accordance with international law.
- Provide financial and technical support to civil society
organizations to assist them in playing an active role in the transition
toward a democratic society and in monitoring, lobbying, and campaigning for
improved human rights standards.
- Provide funding, technical expertise, and training to the
Independent National Commission on Human Rights, established under the
2003 Accra Peace Accord.
- Provide assistance for the reconstruction of the system
for the administration of justice and for other initiatives aimed at the
establishment of accountability for crimes under national and
international law.
- Ensure that UNMIL personnel monitor and report on any
violations of U.N. sanctions imposed on arms, timber, diamonds, and the
travel of people deemed a threat to the region.
- Make public the specific criteria used during the vetting
process of candidates for the Liberian National Police and ensure that
this information is shared with all of those involved in the vetting
process.
- Ensure that there are adequate CIVPOL and Human Rights
personnel allocated to the vetting of prospective Liberian police and
military.
- Given the high illiteracy rate in Liberia, ensure that information about potential recruits for the Liberian National Police and army
are adequately disseminated on the radio and through leaflets to IDP and
refugee camps.
- Ensure at least one representative from a credible
Liberian human rights group is formally included in the vetting process
for both the police and military.
- Given concerns about the efficacy of the vetting process
for the Liberian National Police, ensure that all final recruits for the
LNP are subjected to an additional review process that takes into
consideration some of the recommendations above.
- Incorporate a comprehensive vetting component to screen
out potential military recruits believed to have a history of committing
human rights abuses.
- Make public the specific criteria used during the vetting
process of candidates for the Liberian army and ensure that this
information is duly shared with all of those involved in the vetting
process.
- Urge Nigeria to grant entry to the U.N. Panel of Experts
to investigate compliance with sanctions imposed on arms, timber,
diamonds, and the travel of individuals deemed a threat to regional peace
and security.
- Call on the Nigerian government to surrender former Liberian
President Charles Taylor to the Special Court for Sierra Leone in accordance with international law.
- Make public a summary report of the ECOWAS investigation
into instances of financial misconduct in the National Transitional
Government of Liberia.
- Surrender former Liberian president Charles Taylor to the Special Court for Sierra Leone, which in 2003 indicted him on seventeen counts of
crimes against humanity, war crimes, and other serious violations of
international humanitarian law for his role in human rights crimes during Sierra Leone ’s civil war.
- In accordance with U.N. Security Council Resolution 1607,
grant the U.N. Panel of Experts permission to enter Nigeria to investigate compliance with the U.N. assets freeze and travel ban of individuals deemed a
threat to the region.
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