Nation urged to target war crimes

The perpetrators of hundreds of thousands of cases of rape, torture and sexual abuse are living unpunished in Liberia more than three years after the end of a civil war, Amnesty International said today.

The rights group said the government of President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf must do more to bring those responsible to justice if the country was to recover. The report comes as donors meet in Washington to discuss aid to Liberia to help it rebuild after its 1989-2003 war, in which armies of drugged child soldiers led by ruthless warlords mutilated and raped as they fought.