George J. Borteh
19 March 2008
Former Deputy Defense Minister for Administration at the Ministry of National Defense in the then National Transitional Government of Liberia (NTGL), Mr. Joe Wylie says there is a need for him to appear before the Truth & Reconciliation Commission (TRC), whether he receives invitation or not.
He said he has a story to tell the Liberian people and the rest of the world that during the 15-year old civil conflict the entire population of his village was killed in one day by the defunct National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL).
A Mr. Wylie said the number killed was put at 48 and were killed by one NPFL rebel General identified as Gen. Noragar in Tar Town, near Greenville in Sinoe County.
Though the former Deputy Defense Minister is yet to be invited by the TRC for its Public hearing in order to testify, he added that Gen. Noragar also matched to the next village and put the villagers under captivity for two years. He disclosed that all the women in said village were kept under sex slavery for two years and some were taken away.
Mr. Wylie made the disclosure in Monrovia recently in an interview withTthe Analyst, "He matched to the next town 20 miles away with all the women in the town and kept them there as sex slaves for two years", he said.
"And some of them were taken from our county (Sinoe), and we don't know there were about," the former deputy defense minister noted. He said it is a good thing to appear before the TRC in order for the reconciliation process to be successful.
He noted that testifying before the TRC will open old wounds but pointed out that said initiative will be his own way of opening the room for forgiveness. Mr. Wylie is calling on those in the wrong to appear before the TRC and testify so that the peace and reconciliation segments of the country will be settled.
He called on those who have evidence of his activities oin the civil war conflict to come forward and produce same.
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