TUBMANBURG, Liberia -- In this country, which has endured a long and violent civil war, a slender 22-year-old woman in a pink strapless top elicits special dread. She is known as Colonel Black Diamond, and she commands the main rebel movement's "Women's Artillery Commandos."

2003年8月26日 · Black Diamond, 22, says she joined the rebel forces after being gang-raped by the notoriously ill-disciplined and unpaid forces loyal to former President Charles Taylor in the northern Lofa...

TUBMANBURG, Liberia -- In this country, which has endured a long and violent civil war, a slender 22-year-old woman in a pink strapless top elicits special dread. She is known as Colonel Black...

"Colonel Black Diamond" joins the rebel group LURD, going on to command its all-female wing, the Women's Artillery Commandos, during the Second Liberian Civil War. [14] [15]

2003年8月26日 · Some of the fiercest warriors in Liberia wear tube tops and polished fingernails. Black Diamond could be the prototype for an action hero, a sort of African "Lara Croft." She's all sleek muscle...

Colonel Black Diamond of the Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy (LURD) rebel group received worldwide attention in Western news media in August 2003. As the head of the Women's Auxiliary Corps (WAC), she commanded a group of …

2003年8月30日 · A male commander, Colonel Yankee, has described Black Diamond as his wife but her eyes widen at the mention of a husband. "I don't have one." Comrades say he shares her bed and that they are a ...

2015年9月12日 · Black Diamond recalls her childhood as being “peaceful” and she enjoyed her upbringing in Voinjama the city just miles away from the City’s capital Monrovia. All that would change when President Charles Taylor’s rebel forces raided her village and killed her entire family in front of her, Black Diamond was then gang raped and stabbed to ...

2015年12月23日 · Colonel ‘Black Diamond’ (centre with glasses) is flanked by her female bodyguards and members of the Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy as they return from a patrol in Monrovia’s rebel-held Northern area (9 August 2003).

Colonel ‘Black Diamond’ (centre with glasses) is flanked by her female bodyguards and members of the Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy as they return from a patrol in Monrovia’s rebel-held Northern area (9 August 2003).