DOES the arrest in the United States of one of the key figures in Liberia's civil war for allegedly lying on his citizenship application about his involvement with a rebel group, the National Patriotic Front of Liberia, mean that America is getting tougher on Liberian war crimes?
If more arrests follow, then ties with the West African nation that was founded by freed American slaves must be strained.
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