Liberia: Information on the Liberian National Police and whether they were involved in human rights violations since 1980: the coming into power of Samuel Doe (1980-1990) to the present
| Publisher | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada |
| Author | Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Canada |
| Publication Date | 1 May 1993 |
| Citation / Document Symbol | LBR13924 |
| Cite as | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Liberia: Information on the Liberian National Police and whether they were involved in human rights violations since 1980: the coming into power of Samuel Doe (1980-1990) to the present, 1 May 1993, LBR13924, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6ab2c80.html [accessed 1 June 2023] |
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Information on this specific subject is currently unavailable to the DIRB in Ottawa.
However, for background information on the human rights situation in Liberia since 1980, please refer to the Question and Answer Series paper Liberia: Who is Leaving. This document is available on the REFQUEST database of Regional Documentation Centres. For further information on human rights in Liberia since the Samuel Doe take-over in 1980, you may find the attachments useful. We are still to hear from some of our oral sources and we will inform you as soon as we hear from them.
Additional and/or corroborative information on the requested subject could not be found among the sources currently available to the DIRB in Ottawa.
Attachments
Africa Watch. 21 October 1991. News From Africa Watch. "Liberia: The Cycle of Abuse." New York: Human Rights Watch.
Africa Watch. 11 April 1989 News From Africa Watch. "News From Liberia: Nine Years of Doe's Rule." New York: Human Rights Watch.
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1992. 1993. U.S. Department of State. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office.
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1990. 1991. U.S. Department of State. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office.
