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MONROVIA, Liberia — Liberia’s truth and reconciliation commission has recommended barring President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and 50 other high-profile figures from public office for three decades for supporting armed groups in the country’s civil wars.
If the legislature approves the recommendations and they become law before the 2011 presidential poll, it would block the chance of a second term for Sirleaf.
Sirleaf, 70, acknowledged she gave up to $10,000 to a rebel group headed by Charles Taylor, viewed by many as the chief architect of Liberia’s back-to-back civil wars that lasted from 1989 to 2003. Sirleaf, Africa’s first democratically elected female leader, said the money she sent while an expatriate was meant for humanitarian services.
