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Africa-Press – Liberia. <\/strong><\/span>The Executive Director of the Foundation for Human Rights Defense International-Liberia (FOHRD), Mr. Torbor Tee Wonokay, has rallied members of the human rights community to unite and begin speaking with one voice on national issues affecting Liberians and the country.<\/p>\n

Wonokay told his audience recently that there are so many people in Liberia who are suffering, and those people are not responsible for the inflictions that they are going through. He stressed that after 174 years, Liberia\u2019s democracy shouldn\u2019t be where it is at the moment.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are boys and girls in this town that we call \u2018zogos\u2019, there are young people that we refer to as illiterate, sometimes people even call them plebians, but I want to tell you that it is this constitutional republic that has turned its back on those young people.\u201d<\/p>\n

He emphasized that five years ago, if Liberia had invested in the education of young people \u2018as per the constitution\u2019 things would have been different than it is now.<\/p>\n

Wonokay, who is based in the US, made the statement when he delivered remarks at the one-day symposium organized by his rights group on November 5th at a local hotel.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I flew into this country, all the way from the airport to ELWA Junction and beyond, you can literally see that suffering has overwhelmed so many people in this country,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n

He further told his audience, which included rights activists of various rights and civil society groups, and legal luminaries \u2014 former Chief Justice Frances Johnson Allison \u2014 that in a country where so many boys and girls can\u2019t go to school because their parents can\u2019t afford, \u201csenators and representatives, ministers and directors of public corporations shouldn\u2019t be making US$25 and US$30,000 per month.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are people in this town who are sycophantically inclined to the issue of institutional injustice.\u201d Wonokay than rallied the rights community by calling on all of them to combine their efforts to be able to stand on the side of justice.<\/p>\n

He reminded the audience that Mulbah Morlu, the chairman of the ruling Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC), had said to the opposition, according to him, just a month after the CDC ascended to state power: \u201cWe will annihilate you, we will destroy you, we will uproot your foundation, we will make you incapable to compete and you will be left with two choices, you eat the crumbs or you join our party.\u201d According to Wonokay, Morlu\u2019s statement meant clearly that they (ruling establishment) had intended to undermine the justice system of the country, adding: \u201cYou are saying, you can do whatever you want to do and get away with it.\u201d<\/p>\n

He disclosed that in the last two years, he has spent more than US$300,000 of his personal money fighting for the cause of justice, empowering human rights investigators and his investment is aimed at protecting the human rights of all and for the return of \u2018constitutional order.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have got to be able to stand on the side of justice, and we have got to be fearless\u2026I hope this will begin the moment of new partnership between us, human rights groups, so that we will work together to demand for justice in this town. We have got to steak together. When we decide to come together today and stand on the side of justice and fight for human rights and constitutional and transformational democracy, we will bring about change in this country,\u201d he rallied the rights community.<\/p>\n

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