How The Matriarchs Of Monrovia Stopped The Mayhem ←Click here to go back to Part V: Diamonds & Guns Exhausted from war, a unified group of Liberian Muslim and Christian women, both indigenous and elite Americo-Liberians alike, launched a nonviolent campaign for peace and protest against rampant use of rape as a weapon of war that shocked […]
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The Charles Taylor Rogues’ Gallery ←Click here to go back to Part IV: Firestone & Brimstone Taylor made fortunes colluding with ex-CIA Agent Roger D’Onofrio Ruggiero. According to the ‘Economic Crimes and the Conflict, Exploitation and Abuse’ section of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Liberia report, the blood diamond merchant smuggled weapons into Liberia in exchange […]
AN INFAMOUS WEST AFRICAN WARLORD’S BAY STATE JAILBREAK
Liberia: A Brief History, From Founding To Independence ←Click here to go back to Introduction The United States and Liberia share a history unlike any other nations, and two New England states in particular were instrumental in the founding of Africa’s first republic and America’s first colony. The two West African nations that Charles Taylor obliterated were […]
AN INFAMOUS WEST AFRICAN WARLORD’S BAY STATE JAILBREAK
Bill Russell’s Rubber Plantation ←Click here to go back to Part IV: Firestone & Brimstone In 1959, a titan of the Boston Garden’s parquet floor and the frontlines of the Civil Rights Movement traveled to Liberia on a State Department-sponsored tour of Africa. While visiting a school, a student asked the Boston Celtics legend why he […]
AN INFAMOUS WEST AFRICAN WARLORD’S BAY STATE JAILBREAK
EPILOGUE ‘The Only One We Never Got Back’ ←Click here to go back to Part VI: Diamonds & Guns After the battles, the presidency, the trials, and the gavel, Charles Taylor’s escape from Massachusetts is still a mystery marred in mismanaged documents and misinformation. The dirty waters were further muddied during the trial when the Boston […]
