Lewis Brown: We trained them for few hours to kill

[Kirkpatrick Weah]

 

Women And Children Were Badly Humiliated By NPFL Forces...Taylor Aide Admits

(Aug 20, 2008) By: Mambu James Kpargoi

Monrovia, August 20, 2008: Former National Security Advisor to Ex-President Charles Taylor, Lewis Brown, has admitted that women and children were badly humiliated by fighters of the National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL) but said he regretted that he had no power to stop the brutality.  “When people fight war these things happened especially in our situation where there were fighters with limited education including few days of training… only on how to shoot which could be the possible result of women and children casualties,” Mr. Brown (TRC hearing)  Brown who was testifying at the ongoing TRC Institutional and Thematic Inquiry Hearings at the Centennial Memorial Pavilion in Monrovia contradicted assertions Tuesday when he told the commission that the NPFL had a perfect human rights record. He was responding then to a question posed by a commissioner on his (Brown) assessment of the rebel group’s human rights record.  But Mr. Brown, in an apparent change of statement said: “In peace time there are human rights violations and that the NPFL as a rebel group comprised people of variety of interests and some of these people probably joined the revolution with ulterior motives to damage the human rights record of the NPFL.”  He failed to mention whether he had information of incidents of rape behind the NPFL rebel controlled territories where he said he resided since August 9, 1990.    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. Writes Dio Appleton (TRC Contributor)

 

[Kirkpatrick Weah]

[MOLAC Press]

Robert Sirleaf to Lewis Brown, "You're mere gangster and squanderer of money" See direct quotation culled from confidential memo leak: 

Robert Sirleaf to Mommy (President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf) "Varney Sherman is frustrated with LAP and LUP takeover by UP. He is receiving huge funds from a number our foreign donors thorough his law firms as legal fees and diverting these funds into personal at the detriment of our campaign. This is the reason why I have hence forth decided to channel all of the campaign funds in my possession, to axillaries groups the carried out more effective campaign. As for Eugene Nagbe, Edwin Snowe, Musa Bility, Medina Wesseh and Lewis Brown: these are mere gangsters who have come to squander a lot of money without delivering the votes; he should guarantee their persecution after these elections should we win, like we did to Snowe at the inception in state power in 2006. This is why I do not hesitate to insult them should the need arise"(October 16, 2011: Confidential Memo Leak)

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Women And Children Were Badly Humiliated By NPFL Forces...Taylor Aide Admits

(Aug 20, 2008) By: Mambu James Kpargoi

Monrovia, August 20, 2008: Former National Security Advisor to Ex-President Charles Taylor, Lewis Brown, has admitted that women and children were badly humiliated by fighters of the National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL) but said he regretted that he had no power to stop the brutality.  “When people fight war these things happened especially in our situation where there were fighters with limited education including few days of training… only on how to shoot which could be the possible result of women and children casualties,” Mr. Brown (TRC hearing)  Brown who was testifying at the ongoing TRC Institutional and Thematic Inquiry Hearings at the Centennial Memorial Pavilion in Monrovia contradicted assertions Tuesday when he told the commission that the NPFL had a perfect human rights record. He was responding then to a question posed by a commissioner on his (Brown) assessment of the rebel group’s human rights record.  But Mr. Brown, in an apparent change of statement said: “In peace time there are human rights violations and that the NPFL as a rebel group comprised people of variety of interests and some of these people probably joined the revolution with ulterior motives to damage the human rights record of the NPFL.”  He failed to mention whether he had information of incidents of rape behind the NPFL rebel controlled territories where he said he resided since August 9, 1990.    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. Writes Dio Appleton (TRC Contributor)

 

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