Liberians React to News a War Crimes Court is Coming, We Ask House Speaker Koffa What Comes Next and We Hear from a Court Advocate

Liberia: Democracy in Focus

Coming up in this episode … President Joseph Boakai makes history, taking the first step towards war and economic crimes courts for liberia. The move ends two decades of impunity for crimes that devastated the country and left two hundred and fifty thousand dead.

We get citizen reactions from around the country. We ask what comes next with house speak Fonati Koffa. And we get reactions from the advocates who have spent the last twenty years campaigning for justice.

And One long legacy of the civil wars was drug addiction. We look at one effort in bong county to help addicts break free.

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