Nov 18, 2014 · In 1994, Firestone filed suit based on a bold legal theory: What had happened in Liberia was not a war. It had been a civil conflict.

Nov 18, 2014 · Men in camouflage mounted rusted artillery cannon in battered pickup trucks. Thin teenagers lugged rocket-propelled grenade launchers. Children carried AK-47s. Some held long machetes.

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. Show more

Nov 8, 2017 · 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 Monrovia ...

Aug 3, 2023 · 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.

During the Civil War the Taylor government made a variety of different air support arrangements; a seemingly inoperable Mil Mi-2 and Mil Mi-8, one in Anti-Terrorist Unit markings, could be seen at Spriggs Payne Airport in central Monrovia in mid-2005, apparently a hangover from the war. Meanwhile, during the Taylor era, the Navy consisted of a ...

Feb 6, 2015 · In 1992, five American nuns were killed Liberia's brutal civil war. FRONTLINE and ProPublica investigate why no one has been held responsible.

Jun 14, 2020 · 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 First Liberian Civil War was the first of two civil wars within the West African nation of Liberia which lasted between 1989 and 1997. President Samuel Doe's regime of totalitarianism and widespread corruption led to calls for withdrawal of the support of the United States, by the late 1980s. [2] The National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL) led by …

Liberian factional fighters wait to hand in their weapons at a disarmament centre (© Associated Press/David Guttenfelder). Two generals met to end a war that had resulted in 558,000 deaths and 412,000 wounded.