Liberia History & Information

Some participants at a Solidarity Demonstration For Peace, Justice and Democracy in Sierra Leone and Liberia held before the Liberian Embassy, 16th Street at Colorado Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C., June 24, 2000.

FLASHBACK:
Liberians, Sierra Leoneans, other Africans and their friends will rally for disarmament of RUF hooligans; beefing up of UN and ECOMOG peacekeepers; humanitarian assistance for Liberia’s and Sierra Leone’s war victims; war crimes tribunal for Charles Taylor, Foday Sankoh, Monie Captan, Grace Minor, Cyril Allen, Sam Bockarie, etc.; cessation of bandits’ looting of West Africa’s natural resources; exposure of African Americans who support African killers, dictators and thieves.

Speakers at the rally included representatives of Sierra Leonean and Liberian organizations, human rights groups, few African diplomats in Washington, DC and Friends of Sierra Leone and Liberia.

“To Kill Innocent People is Unforgivable,” Sirleaf Observes

Ellen Sirleaf

Below is an interview Palava Hut Magazine conducted with Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf six about ECOMOG’s disarmament of combatants, her interest in Liberia’s economic reconstruction and her role in the Association for Constitutional Democracy in Liberia to pressurize the late Samuel Doe Government. This conversation was had six months before the general and presidential elections of July 1997.

Palava Hut: Welcome to our microphone and thank you for affording us the opportunity to conduct this interview for our readership both here and at home. As you may be aware, disarmament is taking place in Liberia, but less than 10,000 combatants have been disarmed. Skeptics suggest there may be less than 60,000 fighters as their respective leaders would have the world believe. What do you make of the disarmament process, and the idea that there may be less rebels than we have been told? More…

The Liberian Community Association of the Washington Metropolitan Area Holds Symposium on

“Defining Liberia’s National Identity: The Quest for Harmony and Unity in our Community”

Where:
Long Branch Community Center
8700 Piney Branch Road, Silver Spring, MD

When:
Saturday, January 5, 2002

Other subthemes include The Role of Religious Leaders in Conflict Resolution, Ethnicity and Liberia’s National Identity, Women’s role in Government and Nation and Community Buidling, and Political and Economic Ramifications: Community as a Macrocosm of Liberia

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