Liberia: September 18

It was all about settling scores. Charles Taylor had turned it right into a protection for justice. A five-man Council of State was diminished to only a one-man present. It was unsuitable! Stupidity in management was rife. It turned pricey. ULIMO-J chief, Roosevelt Johnson was Taylor’s goal. Some form of arms sale deal evaporated! What method of pondering was that? Taylor was at warfare with everybody. In fact, Johnson’s ULIMO had battled it out with Taylor’s NPFL’s rebels.

September 18 was about what Taylor needed. Recognized for his shenanigans, Taylor would infiltrate warring factions amid inducements. Roosevelt Johnson is blamed for the loss of life of certainly one of his personal bodyguards. Was that true? No investigation was ever carried out up until at this time. It was not the Ministry of Justice underneath the Council of State that acted as per the regulation. It was about Taylor’s push for vendetta. Taylor had seen a perfect second to get even with Roosevelt Johnson. He seized however was unsuitable!

The Council of State resembled a Mogadishu-styled power-sharing authorities the place lawlessness abound. However, Charles Taylor needed to be seen because the man who may implement regulation and order. Insurgent forces dubbed ‘authorities forces’ had been ordered into motion to arrest Roosevelt Johnson. They ambushed Roosevelt Johnson’s Sinkor residence to impact a so-called arrest on the behest of Charles Taylor.

They are saying, in time of peace, put together for warfare. Roosevelt Johnson and his males could not have been asleep. What ought to have been an arrest of a member of a power-sharing authorities degenerated right into a barbaric full-scale warfare. How come? Police, in any civilization, impact arrest! How did it change? There wasn’t something referred to as the police! Nobody was ready to disarm. Rag-tagged rebels had come to Monrovia – parading in enormous convoys in a sickening model.

Charles Taylor dedicated an unpardonable sin! It was morally and politically untenable to mastermind a pseudo arrest that was a 90-day warfare. It was mindless! Taylor was unsuitable! There was nobody brave sufficient to inform the bandit the reality. Sycophants, as we have now at this time, have all the time been round from time immemorial. Charles Taylor’s enablers joined within the stupor of madness that every one was simply okay.

Civilians had been dying due to one man’s stupidity and lust. Roosevelt Johnson and his males had retreated to the Barclay Coaching Middle. What was seemingly an arrest, however was brutal warfare continued. Day after day; week after week, Charles Taylor turned cautious as his stratagem was working out of steam. Roosevelt Johnson was commanding the beleaguered but fearless preventing women and men of the remnants of the Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) to slug it out with Charles Taylor and Alhaji Kromah’s rebels. The Liberia Peace Council (LPC) strengthened issue can’t be dominated out although.

It was unimaginable! How may the embattled Barclay Coaching Middle be slugging it out within the absence of resupply of arms and ammunition? The gallant women and men behind the partitions of the Barclay Coaching Middle held onto their fortified fort. After three months, Charles Taylor mindlessly bowed in disgrace. Clever males, they are saying, plan wars; and fools execute them. However the harmless lives that obtained misplaced had been due to the madness of some folks we assume, are leaders. Charles Taylor, who, some see as a freedom fighter – was inevitably Liberia’s cursed model of Adolph Hitler. Our reminiscences are of the harmless killed and the blood shed within the title of a senseless journey.

Ekena Wesley, Ekena Wesley, [email Protected], Contributing Author