Liberia: Human Rights Activist Urges U.S. to Push for the Establishment of a War Crimes Court

[FrontPageAfrica] Washington D.C. -- When Adama Demptser, the Secretary-General of the Civil Society Human Rights Platform of Liberia received the invitation to speak at the African Human Right Leaders Summit in Washington D.C., he set his sight on one thing - to call on the United States to use its historic and long term relationship with Liberia as leverage to push for the creation of war and economic crimes court to hold those accountable for his country's brutal civil war that claims the lives of at least 250,000 people.