Since launching his own war against the late Samuel Kanyon Doe’s regime in December 1989 Taylor and his National Patriotic Front of Liberia have made thousands of enemies...
Vol 38 No 23 |
- WEST AFRICA
The protagonists Charles Taylor's NPFL and Samuel Doe's Armed Forces of Liberia escalated the conflict despite peace accords signed in Freetown in May-June 1990...
Civil rights groups were alarmed suggesting that police behaviour recalled the 'jungle justice' prevailing in the last days of the late President Samuel Doe in 1989...
Sources said that John Bestman Deputy Finance Minister under Johnson-Sirleaf during Samuel Doe's regime had been called home to be Finance Minister...
As General Services Agency director under Samuel Doe Taylor was accused of embezzling some US$1 million from the government...
Though a founding member of the LAP which probably won the 1985 elections which were commandeered by Samuel Doe she is running now under the banner of the Unity Party another former alliance party...
In 1985 Mandingos voted en bloc for Samuel Doe's mainly Krahn National Democratic Party of Liberia...
Its members know that their parties in 1985 fought each other so bitterly that they opened the road for Samuel Doe on the NDPL ticket...
When the military regime of Samuel Doe fraudulently excluded the LPP from the 1985 election the party joined forces with the Liberian Action Party (LAP)...
The UPP is often blamed for the rice riots which in 1979-80 brought down the True Whig government and opened the way to the dictatorship of Samuel Doe...
• The New Democratic Party of Liberia (NDPL) was founded to support Samuel Doe's presidential campaign in 1985 and is associated with Doe's Krahn people...
Under the late President Samuel Doe Krahns dominated the government and especially the armed forces; Krahn officers and men are still much in evidence in Hezekiah Bowen's Armed Forces of Liberia...
