Posted on 02/22/2010 4:44:34 PM PST by Sammy67
BATAVIA — Brockport area resident George S. Boley Sr. faces an immigration hearing in Batavia on charges he took part in murders in Liberia as leader of a tribal group, according to Monday’s Buffalo News.
Boley, 60, was arrested Jan. 15 at the Peace Bridge in Buffalo. He is being held at the Federal Detention Center in Batavia until his immigration hearing Wednesday, the News report said.
U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement official Lev Kubiak said Boley is suspected of having served as the leader of the Liberia Peace Council tribal group that
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Liberia Peace Council (LPC)
Estimated to have 4,650 combatants, the LPC emerged in the wake of the 1993 Cotonou Accord, partly as a proxy force for the AFL. It has since made substantial gains from the NPFL in south eastern Liberia, vying for control of commercial operations in timber and rubber. A predominantly Krahn organization, it draws supporters from ULIMO and the AFL, but also from other ethnic groups who have suffered under NPFL occupation. The LPC is led by Dr. George Boley, and is implicated in widespread murder, torture and looting and in efforts to terrorise and depopulate rural areas held by the NPFL.
http://www.c-r.org/our-work/accord/liberia/profiles.php
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