2014年11月18日 · HARBEL, Liberia — The killers launched from the plantation under a waning moon one night in October 1992. They surged past tin-roofed villages and jungle hideouts, down macadam roads and red-clay...

A combatant with the rebel group Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy (LURD) walks through Tubmanburg carrying a rocket propelled grenade (RPG) launcher, Liberia. May 2003.

2014年11月18日 · HARBEL, Liberia — The killers launched from the plantation under a waning moon one night in October 1992. They surged past tin-roofed villages and jungle hideouts, down macadam roads and red-clay...

during the period between the beginning of the Liberian civil war in December 1989 and the imposition of the UN arms embargo in November 1992. Based upon the data available it would be reasonable to assume that Kalashnikov rifles, Rocket Propelled Grenade (RPG) launchers, mortars, heavy machine guns and associated ammunition

2017年11月8日 · Liberia descended into civil war... A Liberian rebel smiles as he carries a rocket-propelled grenade launcher as journalists visit the area under their control in the vital port of...

2023年8月3日 · While the first civil war brought Charles Taylor to power, the second civil war between 1999 and 2003 led to his exit. This time, ECOWAS deployed troops under ECOWAS Mission in Liberia (ECOMIL) with some 3,500 soldiers, with the most coming from Nigeria.

This paper examines the complications of SALWs in the context of armed con lict with particular reference to the Liberian civil war. Using an exploratory analysis that relied on documentary data, as complemented by insights from Key Informant

2020年6月14日 · Weapons, such as AK-47 assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades, were transported from ex-Soviet and eastern bloc countries, China, and the Balkans into Liberia and Sierra Leone to fuel the civil war.

The Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) are the armed forces of the Republic of Liberia. Tracing its origins to a militia that was formed by the first black colonists in what is now Liberia, it was founded as the Liberian Frontier Force in 1908, and retitled in 1956. For almost all of its history, the AFL has received considerable materiel and ...

The commander pointed a rocket-propelled grenade launcher at Ensminger and threatened to blow up the house. He demanded $1,000. Ensminger convinced the men to leave with a truck and $200.