Liberian President Offers State Apology

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Joseph Boakai, Monrovia, December 19, 2017. SEYLLOU / AFP The President of Liberia, Joseph Boakai, presented, Saturday, July 5, the State's apology for the violence and trauma caused by the two civil wars that the country experienced between 1989 and 2003, which cost the lives of some 250,000 people, causing massacres, mutilation, rape, and widespread use of child soldiers. The Head of State carried out this step during a reconciliation ceremony…