David M. Crane, Founding Chief Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, discusses the dire need for establishing a legal framework in Liberia to deal with the legal international criminal mechanisms... After the age of accountability in the 1990’s and early 21st century, there are certain lessons that have been learned since then. One of those lessons is that the beast of impunity must be faced down…always. International courts seeking justice for atrocity crimes in the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, and Sierra Leone were beacons of light in very dark corners of the world during that time. The rule of law was shown to be more powerful than the rule of the gun. Those regions are at peace since justice was done.