Liberia was founded with support from slaveholders and abolitionists for various reasons, marking a unique historical moment.

torture and rape among other charges. Neither Johnson nor the other seven people that the committee listed as leaders of warring factions were ever tried in Liberia. But a handful were convicted ...

Thousands gathered in northern Liberia on Saturday for the funeral of ... claiming around 250,000 lives and resulting in massacres, mutilation, rape, cannibalism and the widespread use of child ...