Africa, April 11 -- Yesterday, I signed the resolution to establish the Extraordinary War and Economic Crimes Courts for Liberia. Today, I voted 'YES' for the resolution during the sitting of the Liberian Senate - 18 years after the devastating civil war.

My father, "Papa" as I called him, was killed along with three of my youngest siblings - all males - along with two uncles and their families, family friends and neighbours I had known all my life in our once thriving village.

They were hunted down and found in their hiding place near Smith Town in the Gola Forest of Gbarpolu County, Liberia, and murdered on a bridge they helped to build, their heads and bodies dumped into the nearby Maheh River.

This happened in 1990 after the arriva...