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Liberia: Govt On Taylor Treatment in the Hague


 

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The Inquirer (Monrovia)

22 August 2008
Posted to the web 22 August 2008

The government of Liberia has given its official reaction to news reportedly coming out of The Hague, that former Liberian President Charles Taylor has been subjected to some rigid security measures while attending his trial.

Information Minister, Lawrence Bropleh, who spoke on the issue of the alleged maltreatment of the former President, iterated the government's position that it considered Mr. Taylor to be innocent and as such, he should be treated in keeping with international acceptable standards as a detainee of the Special Court for Sierra Leone.

Minister Bropleh who had just arrived from the country from the Dominican Republic, located in South America, told journalists yesterday at the Ministry of Information that the government's stance is that Mr. Taylor should be treated within the confines of international acceptable standards stressing that from the way the government sees it, whatever measures would be applied by the court are internationally accepted.

Addressing himself to the issue as to whether the government is concerned or worried over the issue that Mr. Taylor is allegedly being badly treated, Minister Bropleh simply said, "Government is not worried."

He added that Mr. Taylor being a former President of the country has been charged for grave crimes but he reasoned that the former President is innocent until he is found guilty.

He said the government supports the idea that Mr. Taylor gets a free and fair trial something, which he noted the government could hold the court to its feet to do.

Minister Bropleh made it clear that until then, the government cannot raise any issue as of now with the court.

Meanwhile, Minister Bropleh has spoken on the on-going truth and reconciliation hearings taking place in Monrovia.

He said it was the desire of the President and the government in general to unite the Liberian people but acknowledged that this cannot be done overnight.

Minister Bropleh said that the process of truth telling will not always lead us to true reconciliation but that it is a very important first step in the process.

He expressed the hope that those appearing before the commission would be honest in their testimonies so as to help the process.

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On the issue of the President's appearance before the commission, Minister Bropleh said the President is willing and prepared to appear at the wish of the country and will give her testimonies whether in public or in camera, as the commission may deem necessary.


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Author: pfuray
Fri Aug 22 17:39:34 2008

WAKE UP SPECIAL COURT The question in place is simply what approves a man guilty or not? Is it a libral dictatorship of ones will or an international conspiracy? I do plead to speed up the the case of Chalse Taylor people I presume will not like to hear the old story like that of Foday Sankoh or any of the leaders who played a role in the civil war in Sierra Leone. Let justice be hasten up and if the man is convicted let him face the reality of life or let him be relised. Dont waste water on… [Read Full Text]

Author: borri
Mon Aug 25 06:52:20 2008

Once again the Ellen johnson's goverment is not respecting itself. This goverment sold taylor in exchange for the election.We know that George weah won the 2005 election. But because ellen was the candidate of the west, there where no stronge action or words compare to zimbabwe,and kenya.I feel so iretated when i hear the lib goverment making comments in taylor issue. Ellen should be the first to know that Sierra leone was one of the country who distroy liberia. We know that, 1985 coup was supported by their president. read this carefully:

Monrovia, August 22, 2008: A participant… [Read Full Text]

Author: jallohlaw
Sat Aug 30 10:58:18 2008

A prudent maxim of communicative interactions is to affirm content only withing the scope of evidentiality that reasonably supports the averred or asserted content. That means or should mean in 'layman's' terms: speak appropriately!

Applying both formulations, I inqire: Sir, you affirm categorically, sans argument, relatively attested historical facts, or even informed speculation that there was "a civil war in Sierra Leone" [in my lexicon, the demo-fascist soupist occupied territory of Sierra Leone].

Please do your readers an intellectual, ethico-communicative favor, which, truth be told, is really a mandate of intellectual responsibility and intellectual rigor: PRODUCE… [Read Full Text]

Author: chappie
Sat Aug 30 20:25:29 2008

If it isn’t the case of the pot calling the kettle black; Jallohlaw asking someone else to speak appropriately when the ubiquitous Jalloh himself sometimes gets lost comprehending his own writing. For all the “laymen” out there, this is what Jallohlaw is trying to say above: if you are going to speak, speak based on facts. That’s it, cut and dried. What can be inferred, however, from his writing above is that he thinks that there was no civil war in Sierra Leone, but an invasion by Charles Taylor’s forces because that country allowed Ecomog’s peace keepers… [Read Full Text]

Author: jallohlaw
Sat Aug 30 23:44:37 2008

Typical 'African' big, big, talk, Herr Stalker; typical obsfuscatory verbiage, vintage modus 'African"; typical personalization of rock solid ideational problematics: alas, a typical bumbler, sadly.

Ecce Homo:

Consistently and doggedly dodging the issues crisp and clear, the self-characterized Stalker of "jallohlaw," waxes in the sewer of pandering: laymen bunkum, intellectual bunkum, and other rhetorical tropes describable, and only describable, as childish babble.

Your chest beating shall be ignored herein as the cris de couer of a cornered opponent; accordingly, I shall revert to the question posed, the question that encapsulates the substance of this exchange: PRESENT AN UNEQUIVOCAL PROPOSITION… [Read Full Text]

Author: chappie
Sun Aug 31 02:04:35 2008

Let’s be clear, sir, nowhere on these web pages have I ever claimed or even suggested that you said Charles Taylor is guilty. I believe what you are referring to is my comment that whatever you, or for that reason anyone else, think or say has no bearing on the outcome of Taylor’s trial. That, to my best recollection, is what I said. Now going back your gibberish above; I said before and I will say again, the plethora of knowledge you claim to possess is meaningless and does no good to yourself or anyone else if you… [Read Full Text]

Author: jallohlaw
Sun Aug 31 07:13:49 2008

Your interpretation of your intention is porous, perspicuously and self-servingly, porous: the context of my post unambiguously and decisively excludes your interpretation, which is beyond gibberish: it rocks in planet intellectual dishonesty.

A second point: you aver that you speak "two languages": English and a dialect. The last time I checked a dialect does not a language make.

Accordingly, either you don't know what a language is or what a dialect is; or you don't know what a language AND a dialect mean?

Perhaps, excavating the posited rubble will, to sample Kant, yank you… [Read Full Text]

Author: chappie
Sun Aug 31 18:40:59 2008

Sir, regurgitating information does not make one smart; for God sakes, even an inanimate object like a mirror or any school-age child can do the same. The real challenge is to create new knowledge based on available information. So, you quoting Kant, Socrates or Machiavelli may impress the little girl who lives around the corner whose attention you seek, but in the eyes this old man, it is in inconsequential. And let me remind you once again, Sir, I refuse to discuss or argue semantics with you; not now, not ever. This medium is used for concern citizens to discuss… [Read Full Text]

Author: jallohlaw
Sun Aug 31 21:16:03 2008

Man, what a ball I am having with this dude, who earlier called himself "a goat." Better than the soupist occupied territory of Sierra Leone's bubu chords and unique African rhythmic base, is my rumble with "me fren" from the equally soupist occupied territory of Liberia.

Unleash the talking drums or, as the Yanks say, "strike the band."

First my fren, do you not see how unreflexive you are? Were you not the champion of the theory of "nothing new under the sun" a few posts earlier? And now, having been cornered, you yab yab about "new information"? … [Read Full Text]


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