Johnson was filmed in September 1990 ordering the torture – to death – of deposed President Samuel Doe...
Another is a former minister in Johnson-Sirleaf's government 43-year-old Clarence Moniba son of the late Harry Moniba who served as Vice-President to Samuel Doe in the late 1980s...
Previous Liberian leaders such as Samuel Kanyon Doe and Charles Taylor failed to accurately read the game in the extra time...
Instead an atmosphere of fear pervades recalling some observers say the dark days of President Samuel Kanyon Doe's regime just before Liberia collapsed into civil war in the late 1980s...
The mystery of the money's whereabouts remains and accusing fingers are pointing to Weah who has surrounded himself with old players from the corrupt era of the dictator Samuel Kanyon Doe and convicted war criminal Charles Taylor...
Bright was a leading figure in the Independent National Patriotic Front of Liberia led by Prince Yormie Johnson (now Senior Senator for Nimba) which perpetrated wartime atrocities including the torture to death of President Samuel Doe and massacres of civilians (AC Vol 52 No 1 Johnson Sirleaf stands on her record)...
Many Liberians took the remarks as a provocation reminding them of the US government's endorsement of the violently rigged 1985 elections that the dictator Samuel Doe conducted to perpetuate his hold on power and reacted angrily...
In the 1980s he served for two years as a minister in the Samuel Doe administration and went on to manage one of Liberia's oil companies...
It is likely that Johnson will win more votes than his opponents in Nimba which he has represented as a Senator since 2005 and which considers him a hero and protector because he captured and killed former President Samuel Doe who had killed thousands of Nimba residents in ethnic purges after a failed coup in 1985...
Brumskine is an Americo-Liberian the elite group that ruled the country from 1847 until Samuel Doe's coup in 1980 and is still resented by many...
