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Family of five appear in Court on sexual offences  by 20210514 Five mem­bers of a promi­nent To­ba­go fam­i­ly ap­peared be­fore the Scar­bor­ough Mag­is­trate Vir­tu­al Court on Tues­day this week (11th May 2021), to an­swer charges of com­mit­ting sex­u­al of­fences against mi­nors. An of­fi­cial re­lease from the To­ba­go Po­lice Di­vi­sion re­ports that the fam­i­ly mem­bers—three women and two men of ages rang­ing from 33 to 68 years—all ap­peared on the charge of Be­ing a Per­son Who is Guardian to a Mi­nor Failed to Re­port a Sex­u­al Of­...

Federal judge in Philadelphia to consider evidence in massacre of over 600 civilians  In a court filing today, the Center for Justice and Accountability (CJA), Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, and Blank Rome LLP submitted close to two thousand pages of evidence seeking to prove that an elite unit of the Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) perpetrated one of the largest civilian massacres of Liberia’s First Civil War. The brief filed with the court alleges that on July 29, 1990, Moses Thomas, as commander of the AFL’s Special Anti-Terrorist Unit, directed his troops to attack St. Peter’s Lutheran Ch...

Massacre victims ask US judge to convict ex-Liberian colonel for the slaughter Victims and campaigners for a war crimes court for Liberia welcomed the motion against Mr Thomas. 5 min read The Centre For Justice and Accountability (CJA) has filed on behalf of four victims asking court to find Moses Thomas, a colonel in the AFL and commander of its Special Anti-Terrorist Unit “liable for extrajudicial killings, attempted extrajudicial killings, torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, war crimes and crimes against humanity.” The motion, filed in the U.S. District C...