As the Thematic and Institutional Hearings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) progresses to its extremity, more and more Liberians, especially those who have stake in the past political and military imbroglio, continue to go before it (TRC), based on invitation, to elucidate their roles and provide other cogent information that may knowledge of.
The latest and highly placed personalities to appear before the commission are Jackson E. Doe, a brother of slain President Samuel Kanyon Doe and Retired Rebel General Roland Duo of the defunct National Patriotic Front of Liberia and government militia forces.
According to information from the TRC, Mr. Doe, who is Minister of Transport in the current Ellen Johnson Sirleaf-led administration, will take the stand on today to be followed by Roland Duo on Wednesday.
The two are key witnesses, as far as the process of unraveling mysteries of past turbulent decade are concerned because for Jackson Doe he worked with the late President Doe as Minister of State, which puts in the position to have important information vital to the work of the commission, while Duo commanded a notorious group of government fighting forces, the militia.
More than that, he served very strategically during the NPFL bush war and closely worked with detained President Charles Taylor as a trusted confidant.
Under the theme: "Understanding the Conflict Through its Principal Events and Actors," the ongoing hearings are addressing the root causes of the conflict, including its military and political dimensions.
The hearings are focused on events between 1979 and 2003 and the national and external actors that helped to shape those events.
The TRC was agreed upon in the August 2003 peace agreement and created by the TRC Act of 2005. The TRC was established to "promote national peace, security, unity and reconciliation," and at the same time make it possible to hold perpetrators accountable for gross human rights violations and violations of international humanitarian law that occurred in Liberia between January 1979 and October 2003.
Commissioner Moore Frowned On Destructive Criticism
The Commissioner of West Point Demore W. Moore has frowned on citizens, especially residents of the township that are bent on initiating advocacy that would tear the Liberians apart.
Commissioner Moore said advocacies should be done constructively and not to stir up confusion among the citizenry as been practiced by some element who are promoting the culture of device under the disguise of advocacies.
Making reference to the advocacy being practiced by Mr. Richard Kieh, a resident of West Point, Commissioner Moore stressed it was not healthy for society that trying to unite after the bloody civil war in about 15 years in Liberia.
Commissioner Moore in reaction to allegations by Richard Kieh that his leadership has mismanaged about $USD 70,000 that was presented the township by OXFAM Great British for save drinking water supply to residents of the community was untrue that widely spread in the media.
According to the commissioner OXFAM GB at no time give the community such an amount as been claimed Mr. Kieh. He stated that Mr. Kieh was using the claims stir confusion between his leadership and the residents.
Besides, Commissioner Moore has denied recent media reports that his office has ordered the arrest and detention of two reporters of Star Radio, Charles Gborlie and Momolu Varney.
He said the two star Radio reporters entered a council meeting and begun to record voices speakers unknowingly so those in the started to demand that reporters to play their tapes and detention as been claimed by the two reporters.

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