The NDC has commended members of the House of Representatives for what it describes as nationalistic decisions intended to bring relief to victims of the war.
NDC believes that the establishment of the court will end the culture of impunity for individuals who committed human rights abuses, including atrocities during the civil war that ended in 2003.
The NDC’s statement was released hours after majority of the members of the House of Representatives of the 55th Legislature unanimously voted on a resolution to establish the War and Economics Crimes Court in Liberia.
Past regimes of the Liberian government have made intermittent but limited attempts to establish such specialized court, despite calls from national and international human rights bodies to investigate and prosecute individuals who allegedly committed heinous crimes during the nation’s civil unrest, as well as those who also committed economic crimes during and after the civil war in Liberia.
The NDC is a coalition comprised of two grassroots registered political parties; The New Democratic Alternative of Liberia Movement (The New DEAL Movement) and the Free Democratic Party (The FDP).
The constituent parties making up the NDC were amongst several political parties, CSOs, the Inter-religious Council of Liberia, warring faction representatives, youth and women groups in the presence of ECOWAS, AU, and the UN, that signed the Comprehensive Accra Peace Accord for the silencing of gun violence in Liberia.
