Journalism
Bility worked as Managing Editor of the National Newspaper, Monrovia, Liberia (1997—2000). In 2000, he became Editor-in-Chief of the Analyst Newspaper and the Training Officer of the Press Union of Liberia. At the same time, he was engaged as Coordinator of the London-based International Alert peace-building program, through the Press Union of Liberia, and served as Press Officer of the European Union (EU) Liberian office in Monrovia under Ambassador Brian O’Neal.
For one year, Bility was a contracted writer with Amnesty International (2003-2004). In 2004, he became Director of Communication at the International Institute for Justice and Development (IIJD), based in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He toured the US speaking and raising awareness about the atrocities committed in Liberia.[7]
Global Justice and Research Project (GJRP)
Bility founded the GJRP in 2012.[10] Since then, under his leadership, the GJRP's documentation work has contributed to the investigation and arrest of multiple alleged Liberian war criminals throughout Europe and the US,[11] including the arrests of:
● Alieu Kosiah, a former commander of the ULIMO rebel group (2014, Switzerland);
● Martina Johnson, a former commander of Charles Taylor's rebel group, the National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NFPL), for her implication in mutilations and mass killing committed in Liberia during the First Liberian Civil War (2014, Belgium);
● Mohammed Jabbateh, a former commander of the ULIMO rebel group (2016, the USA);
● Agnes Reeves Taylor, Charles Taylor’s ex-wife, for her suspected involvement with the NFPL during the First Liberian Civil War (2017, the UK);
● Kunti K., a former commander of the ULIMO rebel group, for his alleged involvement in crimes against humanity committed during the First Liberian Civil War (2018, France);
● Thomas Woewiyu, co-founder and former spokesperson of the NPFL, and for several years Charles Taylor’s Defence Minister (2018, the USA); [12] Woewiyu’s sentencing hearing was postponed several times during 2018 and 2019. After the last postponement in April 2019, a new date for the hearing was not set, but was expected in 2020. Woewiyu was not in custody awaiting sentencing. On April 12, he died of COVID-19 after a week of treatment at the Bryn Mawr Hospital in Philadelphia, U.S.[13]
● Gibril Massaquoi, a former Revolutionary United Front (RUF) war lord of Sierra Leone,[14] for war crimes and crimes against humanity allegedly committed in Liberia during the Second Liberian Civil War (2020, Finland)[15]