On this day in 1996, Charles Taylor and Alhaji Kromah, after killing thousands of Liberians separately, the two merged their murderous gangs in Monrovia and unleashed a bloodbath on innocent Monrovia residents under the pretext of trying to arrest Roosevelt Johnson. After a weeklong long of killing spree, more than 1500 Monrovia residents were slaughtered my two blood-thirst warlords.
This day, like many other days, when evil covered the clouds over Liberia, is bringing back bad memories to the relatives of the victims who must re-live this horror each year when the perpetrators, except Taylor, are walking around freely due to the policy of our current president who sees bringing those responsible for crimes against humanity in Liberia as witch haunting.
It was during this time, Charles Taylor's other plan was revealed to the public, which is, use the confusion to eliminate his would-be enemies. Leading that effort to eliminate Taylor's enimies was John T. Richardson, a man who recently raise money to built a monument for Charles Taylor, and responsible inducting young children as old as 6years into his so called "Small Boy Unit" of the NPFL.
Richardson and his gang of muderers came very close to killing Archbishop Michael Francis, but were successful in setting fire to offices of several news papers, especially The New Democrat.Charles Taylor and his supporters never forgot the satire documentary by New Democrat's editor and publisher Tom Kamara entitled "The Trial Of Charles Ghankay Taylor." Because of this Tom Kamara was always a target for Taylor's henchmen. In January of 1998, Joe Mulbah, the Taylor regime Minister of Information, denied the New Democrat its registration.These are very, very painful memories, and they are memories that will not go away until the issue of impunity is addressed
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