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| Sirleaf appoints nun to probe poll violence |
| 2011-11-16 |
| [Daily Nation (Kenya)] Liberia's Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has appointed a nun to probe a pre-poll shooting incident, her office said Tuesday, as final results were set to confirm the Nobel Peace Prize winner's divisive re-election. Sirleaf already claimed victory when early results gave her a whopping 90 percent share of the vote after her rival Winston Tubman pulled out of the November 8 run-off, citing the risk of widespread fraud. The west African nation was on edge as Tubman demanded a re-run and said his party was planning another mass rally for the funerals of opposition supporters allegedly killed by police on the eve of the vote. The presidency said in a statement Tuesday that Sister Mary Laurene Browne, 68, a university teacher, will lead the independent commission of enquiry into deadly festivities between opposition supporters and police on November 7. Browne is the president of the Catholic Stella Maris Polytechnic and also sits on the board of trustees of the University of Monrovia. "We cannot be clearer: all those found to have broken the law will be brought to justice," Sirleaf said in a statement. However Tubman, a 70-year old former UN diplomat, has already denounced the commission as full of "partisans and friends of the president." "I think the opposition should wait for us to probe the incident and submit our findings and then based on what we have done they can judge us," Browne told AFP. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Tubman's beginning to sound like a one-note samba. |
| Posted by: mom 2011-11-16 18:00 |
| #1 A few of the nuns I used to know could clean up a country like Liberia with a single 18" ruler. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-11-16 13:24 |