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Rights group wants UN sanctions maintained on Liberia.
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The UN Security Council should maintain the arms embargo against the Liberian government, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday.
In a new report on rights abuses in Liberia, the New York-based rights group also called for the arms embargo to be extended to cover the rebel Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy (LURD), and for an end to neighbouring Guinea's support for the LURD.
The Security Council is expected to vote 7 May on the sanctions imposed on Liberia a year ago for arms-for-diamond trade.
The 23-page report, "Back to the Brink: War Crimes by Liberian Government and Rebels, A Call for Greater International Attention to Liberia and the Sub-region," provides "compelling evidence that Liberian government forces fighting against the LURD are committing war crimes and other serious human rights abuses against civilians in the north-west of the country".
"Liberian civilians are once again bearing the brunt of a brutal war," said Peter Takirambudde, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch's Africa Division.
He warned that "If the international community does not prevent further bloodshed, Liberia's war will destabilise the wider region".
The report claims Liberian army and government militias have executed scores of civilians, including dozens whom they confined to houses and later burned to death.
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