The president made the formal gesture during a reconciliation ceremony in the capital, Monrovia.
The ceremonies were also part of the ongoing national reconciliation effort.
“On this historic occasion, I offer a formal apology on behalf of the state,“ Bokai told those gathered for the event Saturday.
The speech marked the first time since a 2009 reconciliation report recommended an apology that a president had so formally issued one, Aaron Weah, director of the Ducor Institute for Social and Economic Research, told AFP.
The tribunal recommendation went mostly unheeded particularly in the name of peacekeeping, since a number of accused warlords remained influential in the country’s politics.
On Saturday Boakai called for “implementing key recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.”
For Weah, the funeral services and apology marked several weeks of “transitional justice in Liberia” and “actual deliberate actions of trying to implement the TRC”.
“The state could have done better but was used as agency”, Boakai said during his speech, adding: “We must do everything we can to make sure that it never fails you again.
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