What unconsciousness Samuel Kanyon Doe pushed to venture into the streets of Monrovia this September 9, 1990? Since July, the Liberian president lives holed up in his palace at Mansion House. Launched in the northeast of the country in December 1989, the rebel National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL) of Charles Taylor has conquered most of the territory already control much of the capital. In an attempt to loosen the grip, the general president has approached Yealu Prince Johnson, a splinter of the NPFL who created the Independent National Patriotic Front of Liberia (INPFL). Doe is a wise man. Has it not foiled all conspiracies since taking power in April 1980? But the proposal meeting that was sent to him Prince Johnson is enticing, as it is to develop a joint action plan against Taylor. It is all the more confident that the appointment was set to the headquarters of ECOMOG, the peacekeeping force of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has dispatched in August the country. Nevertheless, it is accompanied by an escort he left imposing Mansion House on September 9 to get to the headquarters of West African soldiers. Just down from his armored car, it is hit by a burst of machine guns. They hand him a trap. Doe, wounded in the legs, is driven in the ECOMOG building. Fighting between soldiers of the president, who are trying to get their leader, and the rebels will last one hour under the horrified look White Helmets, held in awe by the men of Prince Johnson. Predicts that there 64 dead. The prisoners ordeal is just beginning. Leads in the district of Bushrod Island, a stronghold of the INPFL Doe is put to death after suffering the worst tortures. His mutilated body is exposed to the curiosity of nearby residents. Samuel Doe met a violent death. Like this former sergeant inflicted in 1980 to his predecessor, William Tolbert, and members of his government, shot on a beach in Monrovia after being dragged naked through the streets of the capital. There is also one of the keys of the Liberian conflict. Since the founding of the country, in 1847, political life was dominated by the descendants of freed slaves from the United States. The rise to power of Doe, a member of a group indigenous, the Krahn, had put an end to this domination. But Taylor, if supported by the Gios, ethnicity of his mother, is essentially a US-Liberian. His fight is like a revenge for this community. Meanwhile, the death of Doe, the conflict between the followers of the former president in NPFL redoubled vigor. Warlords creating dissident factions, the country with fire and blood. It was not until 1996 that is accepted to a vote under the auspices of ECOWAS. Brought to the head of state in July 1997 after a disputed election, Taylor will put the country under the scalpel, while fueling the conflict in neighboring Sierra Leone, where he will benefit from arms trafficking and diamond. But it will in turn faced several rebellions that will lead to its fall in 2003. Two years later, in November 2005, the fifteen page of a civil war that has claimed nearly 300,000 dead and 1 million IDPs will turn with the arrival in power, Democratic this time, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf. Charles Taylor is caught by justice. Arrested in October 2007 in Nigeria, where he had taken refuge, he was extradited to The Hague to be tried by the Special Court of the United Nations for Sierra Leone. As for Prince Johnson, he is still at large. The same Senate seat Read the article on Jeuneafrique Liberia Samuel Doe was tortured to death | Jeuneafrique - the premier information and news site on Africa
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