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DATELINE: Washington, D.C.
The leader of the former Liberian Peace Council, one of the many factions in Liberia's 14-year-old civil war has sued the U.S.-based Advocates for Human Rights group for defamation.
George Boley, who served as Minister of State for Presidential Affairs under President Samuel Doe, was accused by a witness testifying before the Truth Commission earlier this year of looting unspecified amounts of cash and valuables from the private home of President William R. Tolbert following the April 12, 1980 coup. His Liberian Peace Council is also accused of committing various crimes during the Liberian conflict.
Boley told VOA the Advocates for Human Rights has defamed his character.
"I did file a complaint in the federal court in Minneapolis, Minnesota against the human rights group known as the Advocates for Human Rights in Minnesota. If you recall, back in 2006 in November, the deputy director of that organization was on Minnesota Public Radio, along with Jerome Verdier, chairman of the TRC (Truth and Reconciliation Commission) in Liberia. And without reason, without regards for the truth announced to the world that...