In 1990, Liberian President Doe sat naked on the ground. His fingers were cut off and his lower body was cut off. He shouted for help frantically in pain and trembled. Why did countless people at the scene, but no one came to rescue him?
Since the founding of Liberia in 1847, black American descendants have long monopolized political power, marginalized local ethnic groups, and formed a profound social stratification. In the early morning of April 12, 1980, Klan Sergeant Samuel Doe led 17 soldiers to raid the presidential palace, defeat the guards with bayonets and guns, burst into William Talbert's bedroom, and shot him dead. The soldiers dragged Talbot's body to the beach, stripped off his clothes with 13 high-ranking officials, tied it to a pillar and executed it. The waves washed the body repeatedly, marking the end of the American elite rule.
People once regarded Doe as a liberator of the native ethnic group. He released some political prisoners and proposed a land allocation plan, which won financial aid from the United States. Doe quickly formed the People's Salvation Committee, which served as its own chairman, arrested 91 officials of the former regime and detained them in secret facilities. The draft constitution was promulgated in 1983 and passed in a referendum in 1984. In the 1985 election, he sent troops to monitor polling places with guns and changed the real vote from 25% to 51%. The Supreme Court judge convicted his cronies of corruption and ordered soldiers to break into the judge's residence and shoot the entire family. Khlan officers monopolized arms warehouses and customs, and Gio businessmen were forcibly relocated and their property confiscated. States were required to host his birthday parties in turn, which cost $3 million per banquet, more than three times the national medical expenditure.
In 1984, Doi travelled to China, carrying 30 tons of luggage, hiding ivory and diamonds, and signed a port agreement to turn the port of Liberia into a smuggling hub in West Africa. The economic downturn worsened, in 1985, the water supply system of Monrovia collapsed, residents drank contaminated river water, and the president's swimming pool replaced fresh water every day. Reporters in live broadcasts criticized people's livelihoods, Doi ordered guards to rise and drag them to the backdrop with sticks to beat them to death. These atrocities triggered 36 coup attempts, and on November 12, 1985, Thomas Quyonkrap led the assassination of the presidential palace, soldiers rushed into the hall, Quyonkrap feared to
On December 24, 1989, Charles Taylor sneaked into northern Liberia with 167 armed men from the Ivorian border. These members were mostly young people whose parents were killed in the Doe crackdown. They were armed with rifles and rocket launchers and quickly occupied border towns. Taylor's National Patriotic Front took advantage of dissatisfaction to expand and controlled two-thirds of the country within half a year. On July 29, 1990, Kran soldiers stormed a church in Monrovia and shot some 600 Gio and Mano civilians. As Taylor's forces advanced, Prince Johnson's branch, the Independent National Patriotic Front, also attacked from the east, creating a multi-factional melee. On September 9th, Doe assessed the situation and believed that the headquarters of the West African peacekeeping force could be used as a safe place, so he led 60 guards to drive to the camp of the United Nations peacekeeping force in Monrovia for negotiations.
On the way, the motorcade encountered a roadblock set up by the Johnson Front. The soldiers fired machine guns. Doe was shot in both legs and fell to the roadside and was dragged into Johnson's military camp. The military camp was located in a muddy camp surrounded by barbed wire and armed sentries. Doe was escorted to a makeshift hut. Soldiers hit him on the head with rifle butts, forced him to take off all his clothes, and pushed him down to sit on the filthy ground. The temporary "People's Court" established by Johnson personally supervised began to operate. Soldiers gathered in a circle and read out the charges loudly: massacre of innocent people, misappropriation of state funds, and ethnic cleansing. With each reading, Johnson walked up to Doe with a rusty knife and chopped off one finger. Blood gushed out of Doe's palm, and the broken finger fell into the soil. His body was distorted by the pain and he let out a tearing cry, trying to press the wound with his mutilated palm. The soldiers continued to read, and the blade fell again and again, blood splashed on the boots of people around them, and the air was filled with the smell of blood.
After ten fingers were cut all over, the soldiers turned to his lower body, and Johnson ordered the execution of the court with the same knife, and the Doi's squadron shattered, the body trembled sharply, crying out for help, and the sound revolved in the camp. The scene gathered hundreds of people, they were crushed out of the camp, and stood behind the iron grid to watch the scene, but no one came up and stopped or rescued. Since the Doi's decade of rule, countless families were persecuted: soldiers broke into houses to rob property, shoot rebels, and forced youth into the camp. The Doi's villages were burned, and the residents were forced to flee. The Clan's privileges caused other ethnic groups to
Since the founding of Liberia in 1847, black American descendants have long monopolized political power, marginalized local ethnic groups, and formed a profound social stratification. In the early morning of April 12, 1980, Klan Sergeant Samuel Doe led 17 soldiers to raid the presidential palace, defeat the guards with bayonets and guns, burst into William Talbert's bedroom, and shot him dead. The soldiers dragged Talbot's body to the beach, stripped off his clothes with 13 high-ranking officials, tied it to a pillar and executed it. The waves washed the body repeatedly, marking the end of the American elite rule.
People once regarded Doe as a liberator of the native ethnic group. He released some political prisoners and proposed a land allocation plan, which won financial aid from the United States. Doe quickly formed the People's Salvation Committee, which served as its own chairman, arrested 91 officials of the former regime and detained them in secret facilities. The draft constitution was promulgated in 1983 and passed in a referendum in 1984. In the 1985 election, he sent troops to monitor polling places with guns and changed the real vote from 25% to 51%. The Supreme Court judge convicted his cronies of corruption and ordered soldiers to break into the judge's residence and shoot the entire family. Khlan officers monopolized arms warehouses and customs, and Gio businessmen were forcibly relocated and their property confiscated. States were required to host his birthday parties in turn, which cost $3 million per banquet, more than three times the national medical expenditure.
In 1984, Doi travelled to China, carrying 30 tons of luggage, hiding ivory and diamonds, and signed a port agreement to turn the port of Liberia into a smuggling hub in West Africa. The economic downturn worsened, in 1985, the water supply system of Monrovia collapsed, residents drank contaminated river water, and the president's swimming pool replaced fresh water every day. Reporters in live broadcasts criticized people's livelihoods, Doi ordered guards to rise and drag them to the backdrop with sticks to beat them to death. These atrocities triggered 36 coup attempts, and on November 12, 1985, Thomas Quyonkrap led the assassination of the presidential palace, soldiers rushed into the hall, Quyonkrap feared to
On December 24, 1989, Charles Taylor sneaked into northern Liberia with 167 armed men from the Ivorian border. These members were mostly young people whose parents were killed in the Doe crackdown. They were armed with rifles and rocket launchers and quickly occupied border towns. Taylor's National Patriotic Front took advantage of dissatisfaction to expand and controlled two-thirds of the country within half a year. On July 29, 1990, Kran soldiers stormed a church in Monrovia and shot some 600 Gio and Mano civilians. As Taylor's forces advanced, Prince Johnson's branch, the Independent National Patriotic Front, also attacked from the east, creating a multi-factional melee. On September 9th, Doe assessed the situation and believed that the headquarters of the West African peacekeeping force could be used as a safe place, so he led 60 guards to drive to the camp of the United Nations peacekeeping force in Monrovia for negotiations.
On the way, the motorcade encountered a roadblock set up by the Johnson Front. The soldiers fired machine guns. Doe was shot in both legs and fell to the roadside and was dragged into Johnson's military camp. The military camp was located in a muddy camp surrounded by barbed wire and armed sentries. Doe was escorted to a makeshift hut. Soldiers hit him on the head with rifle butts, forced him to take off all his clothes, and pushed him down to sit on the filthy ground. The temporary "People's Court" established by Johnson personally supervised began to operate. Soldiers gathered in a circle and read out the charges loudly: massacre of innocent people, misappropriation of state funds, and ethnic cleansing. With each reading, Johnson walked up to Doe with a rusty knife and chopped off one finger. Blood gushed out of Doe's palm, and the broken finger fell into the soil. His body was distorted by the pain and he let out a tearing cry, trying to press the wound with his mutilated palm. The soldiers continued to read, and the blade fell again and again, blood splashed on the boots of people around them, and the air was filled with the smell of blood.
After ten fingers were cut all over, the soldiers turned to his lower body, and Johnson ordered the execution of the court with the same knife, and the Doi's squadron shattered, the body trembled sharply, crying out for help, and the sound revolved in the camp. The scene gathered hundreds of people, they were crushed out of the camp, and stood behind the iron grid to watch the scene, but no one came up and stopped or rescued. Since the Doi's decade of rule, countless families were persecuted: soldiers broke into houses to rob property, shoot rebels, and forced youth into the camp. The Doi's villages were burned, and the residents were forced to flee. The Clan's privileges caused other ethnic groups to