Charles Taylor FALLS!

[C0ckney]

good news, although it remains to be seen whether he actually honours his promise. assuming he does, then i hope that something similar to what is happening in sierra leone can take place in liberia, although without the kind of outside help sierra leone received (from britain) i can't say i'm overly optimistic about the future, although perhaps a little more so than mtg

[cinch]

good news, although it remains to be seen whether he actually honours his promise. assuming he does, then i hope that something similar to what is happening in sierra leone can take place in liberia, although without the kind of outside help sierra leone received (from britain) i can't say i'm overly optimistic about the future, although perhaps a little more so than mtg

Perhaps the U.S. would be willing to help out its former colony? If they want to be imperialists, they can at least perform the positive aspects of the job, too...


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cinch - Taylor is a descendent of former slaves. His assassinated ex-boss, Samual Doe, was a Krahn native and the only native leader of Liberia in it's history.

Ah, yes. Thanks, Mike.

[Dr Strangelove]

Gee, sorry Che, but some of us work for a living you know! I came as soon as I could!

Isn't Charles Taylor the guy whose guerillas in Sierra Leone were running around chopping off peoples' hands, or was that some other thug?

Is his stepping down contingent upon a guarentee of amnesty for himself?

[C0ckney]

yes he backed the rebel movement(s) there (and in a few other countries too), sierra leone and liberia have a very unpleasant history of backing rebels in each other's countries. i don't know about amnesty, he'll almost certainly try for it, but he isn't really in a position to bargin.

cinch, yes i think it would be very good in the US could do something similar to what we did in sierra leone. a small force to keep peace and order in the capital, protecting government offices, foriegn nationals, that sort of thing, and advisors to train a new national army and police force, would do, in my opinion, a massive amount of good.

[Shi Huangdi]

Wonderful News! Nice to see the downfall of one of the world's worst dictators

[Imran Siddiqui]

Perhaps the U.S. would be willing to help out its former colony?

Liberia was never a colony of the US, AFAIK.

[Berzerker]

"If President Taylor is seen as a problem, then I will remove myself. I'm doing this because I'm tired of the people dying. I can no longer see this genocide in Liberia," he said at the time.

Last week, he insisted Liberia would have no peace unless the indictment was dropped.

What a BS'ing hypocrite. He's tired of the bloodshed but guarantees more if he doesn't get a pass on his crimes.

[cinch]

Imran:

Liberia was never a colony of the US, AFAIK.

The African-American slaves were being relocated to an area in west Africa, bought by Robert Stockton, by the early 1820s. A constitution was drawn up in 1824, and the country was controlled by white American governors for 24 years. In 1848, Liberia was granted its independence. I don't know if, between 1820 and 1848, it was officially called a colony, but it certainly wasn't an independent nation... and it was being controlled by the American government, so I would, personally, classify it as a colony.

Link To A Great Site On Liberian History

[cinch]

Double Post, sorry... the server's funky.

[Ted Striker]

Originally posted by GP
Is this the same guy who played for the Redskins?

[Inverse Icarus]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Guess Black genocide < white settler farmers getting their farms taken away.

yeah.

[The Mad Monk]

Che, Che, Che.

You must learn patience -- or, barring that, learn to bump a thread in such a way that it dosen't appear that you are desperate for posts.

Find some additional information, or have a 'sudden revelation' on what's already posted, or something.

[Sikander]

The hightop shoe guy? Why is everyone so glad he's fallen? Can he get up, he must be pretty old by now, I wore his shoes when I was a young pup in the '70s.

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Seriously, it's pretty good news, except that he's not dead yet, and whatever is supposed to take his place isn't there yet either. Hoping for the best.

[DanS]

Charles Taylor hasn't fallen yet.

[Lefty Scaevola]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara Twenty minutes was enough time for the thread to fall to the bottom of the page.

It suffers in interest, not because of the subject, but because of the author. All lot of posters around her are less interested in what you say, because it is you that is saying it.