Inadequate Justice: Sierra Leone vs. Charles Ghankay Taylor

Inadequate Justice: Sierra Leone vs. Charles Ghankay Taylor by P. Alphonsus Zeon

With struggles of settling down and maintaining peace following 15 years of atrocities, this book dives into the failures of Liberia to break the culture of impunity. It highlights the trial of former Liberian President Charles Ghankay Taylor as a key example by neighboring Sierra Leone to hold accountable leaders who planned and orchestrated unimaginable violence against their own people, as the way to set the stage for lasting peace.

Inadequate Justice assesses the standards of international justice through the views of ordinary people, leaders, testimonies of witnesses and legal arguments. With direct quotations from Taylor's testimony, the book points to a missed opportunity to avert Liberia's 15-year civil war that eventually spread to Sierra Leone, Cote d'Ivoire and Guinea.

About the Author:
Poliyon Alphonsus Zeon is a member of Liberia's Supreme Court Bar. He graduated with LLB from the Louis Arthur Grimes School of Law and BA in Mass Communications, all from the University of Liberia. He obtained a certificate in International Criminal Law from the International Law Institute, Kampala, Uganda. Zeon trained at Harvard Kennedy School, earning a certificate in Implementing Public Policy. A journalist of more than 15 years, Zeon worked for the BBC World Service Trust with an assignment in The Hague, Netherlands. There, he covered the war crimes trial of Charles Ghankay Taylor at the Special Court for Sierra Leone. An ardent reader of political and legal developments and a writer, Zeon is a former Secretary-General of the Press Union of Liberia and Executive Council member of the Liberian National Bar Association.