Woewiyu's trial, like Jabateh's, is expected to draw intense attention from Liberians in the U.S. and Africa. More than 200,000 people died or were seriously injured, and millions more were displaced, in the protracted fighting between 1989 and 1996 marked by atrocities committed on all sides. Many of the perpetrators emerged unscathed and some now hold positions of power in Liberia's government.