Liberia, The UnCivil War.......

[Fly2e]

Has anybody seen this documentary?
I caught it last night on the Discovery Times Channel here in the states.

What a mess that was over there.
If you get a chance, check it out!
Talk about a situation that was total chaos..

Children, 12, 13, 14, etc.. years old with machine guns..

Actually, everybody had some sort of weapon.

It was basically about the rebels, "The LURD", who wanted the nations ruler to step down. The documentary is captured from both sides. The LURD is just all out rebels firing at anything that is in their path.
Launching rockets into crowded streets, children being killed,.. It was nuts!!

The other side are the refugees basically staving and hiding from gun fire....

If you get a chance, catch it. It is pretty graphic!

Here is a link....
http://www.newsreel.org/nav/title.asp?tc=CN0176

Dave


[quote]The summer of 2003 saw the peak of a killing frenzy in Liberia in a chaotic civil war that has lasted 15 years. Insurgents were preparing to enter the capital, Monrovia, still held by forces loyal to the increasingly isolated president, Charles Taylor. Soldiers from both camps, most of them teenagers, engaged in urban warfare as bloody as it was desperate, killing thousands of civilians holed up in slums around the city. The international community, preoccupied by Iraq, did nothing, and the American warships on the horizon refused to intervene until Taylor was gone. Considered a model state, founded by freed American slaves, Liberia had been America

[Boomtown Rat]

For a nation that was founded as a haven for former slaves, thing have pretty much gone downhill...  :-[ :-/

[Jared]

mm, yes, my dad had a guy come over to the states for training and such for banking systems and he told us many stories about life over there...it was indeed very interesting..